2009/10/18 Dave Hall <dave.h...@skwashd.com>: > On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 17:35 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> >> A risk of contributing to some random Web site is that there's no >> certainty that your information will remain publicly available at that >> address for the long term. Web sites come and go. >> >> Like I've said earlier in this thread, the answer to the forum/list >> question is to use a service like Google Groups or Gmane to have a >> Web-based interface to a list. This is explained at >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/MailingLists > > That is why I proposed the compromise plan - use a forum with a mail > interface and link it to the relevant lists. It would also allow us to > make more lists available to Australia ubuntu users. FUDForum is > capable of doing this.
But we already have a compromise plan: a list with multiple forum interfaces. That gives us: * an e-mail list, professionally and reliably administered by Canonical (lists.ubuntu.com) * forum-like interfaces through Google, Gmane, etc. * a centralised and reliable store of message archives * other archives around the Internet * no burden of administration on any community member Any other approach would: * be less reliable * be less flexible * require administration Another key question is who will own the posts. I don't want my posts to be owned by some unknown entity. I can post to lists.ubuntu.com with some assurance that they'll do the right thing with regards to rights. Even if they don't, my messages are still mirrored around the Web. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
