lynx-dev Agreement, opinions about the move ? (Was Re: mailing-list problem (Was Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch? (fwd)))

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, SP-BEI wrote:

> I'll go with whatever the Lynx community wants to do.  If the
> decision is to move the list elsewhere, I'll offer what help
> that I can in keeping the address@hidden alive for as long
> as possible.  Of course the list is just part of the support
> issue here.  Maintaining the list and source archives might
> also be a goal.  I was waiting for someone to step up for
> that after the non-Gnu project page was created.

So, do we have an agreement ? And maybe you Bob can be the
third administrator / moderator ?

I can't do anything without you.

What I proposed:

1- Move it to Savannah.

2- Create a lynx-dev there.

3- Create a lynx-announce there. Thomas sends announcements
about new releases (and /temp patches) to both.

4- Subscribe all users from the old lynx-dev to the new and
send them a message about the move. They have to reply to it /
follow the instructions to get subscribed.

Yes, we could just add the 140+ automatically, but we don't
know how many are still "valid".

Or we can. Opinions ?

5- Contact the lynx-dev-contrib subscribers and ask if they
want to be added in a list of addresses that can only post.

6- If someone tries to subscribe to the old lynx-dev and
lynx-dev-contrib, send them a message about the move.

The same could be made for messages from non subscribers. But
then you'd probably send hundreds of e-mails back to spammers.

7- Remove the spam from the FLORA.org archives. I already did
it for 2000-January 2004 (thanks to Pine), and really don't
think there was any before it. Well, there was one in December
1999, but that's probably all. A spam (probably from a
subscriber) in thousands of messages isn't that bad. 90% or
more was.

The move can't be done by us. We'd have to contact the Savannah
people (and persuade them ?).

8- Once we're done we can ask FLORA.org to redirect everything
under http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ to the main page of the
new archives.

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