On 15/02/16 16:03, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Alexandre Oliva <aol...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On Feb 12, 2016, Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> wonderful. I am not a big fan of google groups mailinglists, they seem >>>> to make it hard to subscribe and don't have easy to access archives. >>>> Having a local gnu-gabi group on sourceware.org would be better IMHO. >> >>> +1 >> >> +1 >> >> Since it's GNU tools we're talking about, we'd better use a medium that >> we've all already agreed to use, than one that a number of us objects >> to. I, for one, have closed my Google account several Valentine's Days >> ago, for privacy reasons, and this makes the archives of lists hidden >> there unusable for me. > > Please don't spread false information. Anyone can subscribe Linux-ABI > group and its archive is to open to everyone. You don't need a gmail account > for any of those. There are quite a few non-gmail users. You don't have > to take my word for it. I can add your email to Linux-ABI group and you > can check it out yourself :-). >
you as a group admin can do that, others cannot join without creating a account at google (which requires the acceptance of the google tos etc). you also have censorship rights over others. even if you add users to the list they cannot access the archive through standard http or https, they need to allow google to execute javascript code on their machine. (so wget does not work). and the url through which you visit a post is not a reliable permanent link so linking to posts is hard. i think google groups is not an acceptable forum for discussing open standards publicly.
