I think local mailling list are BUG's domain, if you pull the already few people (in some countries) from BUGs to a national-xxxx-BSD list, it will fragment more the tiny local communities. Sdav
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-03 10:55, Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > 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. > > Yes, it definitely *is* possible. I am the moderator/listman for > `freebsd-doc-el', which is currently hosted in the Mailman installation > of lists.linux.gr: > > http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc-el > > Right now the list is not open for posting by non-subscribers, so we use > this as a crude `antispam' filter. If the load starts becoming too much > for me to handle, I will have to find another way to filter messages :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
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