> Some time ago i started a googlegroup mailing list, bitcoin-discussion. > It's been pretty low-volume... but it's something. :) > http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion
Unfortunately it appears to be just as dead as the one on sourceforge. > or we could try to revive the bitcoin-list ml on sf. Well there's a couple things I see... 1) Yes, IMO, a real mailing list for users needs to exist. Among the prior reasons... lists tend to house a more technical crowd than forums which are magnets for initiates. 2) There was originally one client. Now there are many, all adherant to the same bitcoin spec. So while: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net represents the dev community for the original client, it may not, or won't be, for any other client. And as: bitcoin-l...@lists.sourceforge.net was for, and is administratively tied to, the original client... it may not be the place, or a welcome one, to hold talk of all the adherant clients. 3) The sourceforge list browsing interface is ridiculously lame and overweight, and it doesn't appear to be setting a '^Reply-to: ' header which is bad. Googlegroups would be an ok site I suppose. And a pure MailMan interface would be even better and more customarily accepted. So for the user list, I'd suggest: 1) Search a bit to make sure there's not already a busy list out there somewhere. Check the list aggregator sites like markmail, gmane, etc too. 2) Charter it as bitcoin protocol, client agnostic. 3) Find an impartial administrative and robust home for the list with browsable, searchable and hopefully downloadable archives. 4) Make the announcement to other known client lists/forums. 5) Close any relevant old lists. 6) Promote via similar announcement from time to time. http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion/about Description: A place for discussion related to bitcoin. Is this sufficient charter to go with? Is the creator/maintainer known impartial? What happens to ongoing list operations when said people vanish? It is presumed googlegroups itself is robust. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
