On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:55:18PM +0000, Vegard Øye wrote:
I am now a list admin.
Štěpán, feel free to subscribe the list to Gmane.
Thanks! So, several things (TO ALL READERS of this list -- I'd really appreciate your input at least on points 2. and 3. below): 1. It's best to import the ML archive before actually providing the Gmane interface, as it is less work/trouble (no article re-numbering problems etc.). For that, we should provide a single mbox file containing the archive (see <http://gmane.org/import.php>). At <https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/implementations-list/>, there are gzipped mbox archives per-month, so it's not that bad -- I can just download them all and `cat' them into a single file, but I thought I'd ask anyway -- do you have access to a single file containing all the archives? 2. Gmane uses a NNTP-like newsgroups hierarchy, so we should settle on how we suggest Gmane to name the group. I assume it's rather uncontroversial that we should be something in the `gmane.emacs' hierarchy, so the question is about that "something". My suggestion is `gmane.emacs.vim-emulation' (as a side note, the name of this list has always seemed really bad to me -- it says nothing about what the list is about; but I guess we have to live with that -- and those who might come after us, too. Another option would be to not be so general and go for `gmane.emacs.vimpulse', but AIUI this list was supposed to provide a wider forum. Any ideas really appreciated. I guess `gmane.emacs.modal' is kinda nice, too, but probably overly general.) 3. By default, nowadays Gmane encrypts all mail addresses in the news and web interfaces as an anti-spam measure (it looks like <[email protected]>). Those addresses are valid, i.e. you can send mail to them just fine (and it gets redirected to the actual subscription address), it's just a kind of obfuscation. I personally dislike it and it can be switched off at subscription time, but I'm not going to do that unless more people on this list feel the same -- in my impression, most people prefer obfuscation or even subscribed-only mailing lists to the occasional (very rare in my limited experience, but don't take my word for it) spam message. Štěpán