cool-RR wrote: > Hello Samuel, > > I'm glad I got the right list. > > According to your definition, the project fits Wikimedia's goal. I will now > introduce it. > > The project is called Librelist. The official website introduces it quite > well, so I'll just quote it:
> Librelist is a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source > projects. It is a place for FOSS communities to discuss all the things they > want without ads, censorship, signup requirements, bundled apps, or > requirements that you use any particular email client or service. > Anyone Can Make A List > > You can make a mailing list by simply sending an email to l...@librelist.com, > and if it doesn’t exist, it will make it for you and subscribe you. That’s > all there is to it, and no restrictions on making the lists. Some steps shuld be a little harder. How do you difference a typo from a request for a new list? Who is set as admin? Etc. > Anyone Can Subscribe To A List > > You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message to > l...@librelist.com. That’s it. It ditches your original message and sends > you a confirmation you reply to. No signup or web forms involved. >From http://librelist.com/help.html it looks like you don't need to answer a payload to be subscribed. That will produce lots of problems when its mailing lists gets sent spam messages with faked from headers. It could even be abused as a remailer. I'm pretty sure it is mentioned in some RFC, but it's proper netiquette anyway. > And I would say, that the biggest disadvantage Librelist currently has is > this: Since it is a relatively new community project, it's hard to trust > that it will stay operating and well-maintained for years. People don't want > to start a mailing list on a service that might get closed 6 months from > now. The founder of Librelist seems enthusiastic enough, but this is a > non-profit project for him, so it's impossible to be certain that he will > not become too busy for the project in the future. That can be solved to some extent by making it easy to fork. I see that the mailing lists are rsyncable which is very nice. If the mailing list admin can download with a click a mailing list backup that can be installed on a server with a couple of clicks should librelist go down. (Note that these contain email addresses so they must not be public) > I think that the Wikimedia foundation should sponsor this project. I think > it wouldn't require a big amount of resources, but it will require the > persistence and reliability over time that Wikimedia has shown with > Wikipedia and its other projects. I don't think that fits cleanly into the Mission, but the decision is up to the board. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
