> I think that the question dropped by Edw was more of why this service
> wasn't offered from the FreeBSD mailman infrastructure. I think
> that every country and state has its own mailman/majordomo/ezmlm/whatever
> features, but none are ran centrally.
>
> Edwin
Local language lists best left in national domain spaces IMO,
so the admin of national traffic problems is resolved with least effort.
+ also a uniform international naming convention Might be nice,
but a name like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
might not be acceptable for some countries where eg "questions"
might mean something inappropriate, or need a char set.
I think it unlikely & undesirable we'll see centrally run lists.
The extra work for the central mailman-owner:
I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] is happy/wise to avoid the
nightmare of local languages & character sets & leave it to
locals within each delegated your-country.freebsd.org DNS name space.
Imagine the extra work if less multi lingually skilled start
dumping extra mail list problems on the international administrators,
some in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, etc &/or in worse than
than normal international English.
Would volunteer want extra unpaid work sorting it ? Apart from
bounces, warnings etc, even just getting eg List description
updates in many national font sets would be a pain. Better if
the work went direct to a fellow national who could read it
easily.
What benefit/ trying to centrally administer foreign lists ?
Example: A Swiss German told me in '85 that German programmers
who could read English tended to be better programmers than
fellow Germans who struggled in English. Since then PCs have
become more pervasive, & there'll be more computer books in more
local languages, but on average, the concept likely tends to be
true for most language groups: Those who've known Unix longest,
probably are more skilled, & more used to reading Unix manuals
& lists in English, & more likely to be using international list
anyway (& if they're on local lists at all, mostly to help their
less skilled nationals).
There'll be a few exceptions to prove the rule, eg laptop code
first developed on Japanese hosted FreeBSD lists. But over all,
I guess FreeBSD can still best expect to benefit from more diffs
etc posted by more skilled users on the international
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc than simple end user non contributor
traffic on [EMAIL PROTECTED] traffic
Examples of URLs to local language mail lists:
http://www.de.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
http://www.fr.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
http://www.kr.freebsd.org/support.shtml#mailing-list
http://www.freebsd.de/mailinglists.html points to domo@
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, not all admins use same list tools, so not orthogonal naming.
Julian
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