On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:45:01AM +0100, Julian Stacey wrote: > > 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
> 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. As a mailman-owner hosting about 60 lists, I can tell you that it is possible in mailman to set the owner of a list to a person who wants to have the list and let them handle the bounces and unknown messages. > What benefit/ trying to centrally administer foreign lists ? The benefit is that the remote people don't have to invest time and money in setting up a mailman infrastructure and going through all the learning process of getting everything right. It's not a "you must do it here", it's an "you can do it here". Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
