[NCUC E-team] Mailing lists

Wilson Abigaba wilson at isoc.ug
Mon Jan 21 09:32:11 CET 2013


Dear Tapani,

It appears that the lists archives are only available to the
respective list members. Shouldn't they be public?

On another note, I was to join many of the lists even if I may not not
actively participate in all of them. Would that be ok?

Kind Regards,
Wilson

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
<ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> All,
>
> As you no doubt have noticed, you've been subscribed to
> this newly-created e-team mailing list.
> The list currently lives on Effi's Mailman server;
> this is a temporary arrangement decided on by a secret
> inner circle, namely Bill, Wilson, Brenden and me. :-)
> There's not much time left before LA so we felt we
> need something *now*, and this was an easy way to do it.
>
> Similar lists have been created for all teams.
> The plan is to move the lists to our own server later,
> which should be easy enough if we stick to Mailman.
>
> While you all are obviously used to mailing lists,
> one point is perhaps worth explaining:
>
> Subdomain "lists.ncuc.org" was used instead of plain "ncuc.org",
> because we might one day want to keep lists on a separate
> machine (e.g., so that they'd go on working even when the
> main machine is down) and we haven't decided how we
> would want to use @ncuc.org addresses in general.
> Also it is less confusing to use same domain in addresses
> as in the web interface, and that can't be at ncuc.org
> (at least not before we get rid of Ning).
>
> It is of course possible to create @ncuc.org -aliases
> for some (or even all) lists if desired, and it might
> make some sense for some more public lists like the
> planned members list, but I would suggest sticking
> to @lists at least for the internal teams.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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