Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

[Bob Elzer]

Is gmane subscribed to our list ? Or does it get it some other way ?

I'm sure we could merge the archive into the forum, we're linux users, we
can do anything. :)
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On 
> Behalf Of Ryan Rix
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:58 AM
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?
> 
> Bob Elzer wrote:
> > 
> > Each has it's own drawbacks and advantages. For one it 
> would increase 
> > the web site traffic. More traffic, and they see other 
> stuff that may 
> > interest them.
> > 
> > Not sure if it could still be part of gmane or not.
> > 
> 
> GMane only handles mailing lists, not forum software :(
> 
> > It would certainly not cause someone to leave the list, they would 
> > just skip the topics they're not interested in.
> > It would cut down on internet waste, I haven't looked how 
> many people 
> > are on the list ?  But all those email to people who just 
> delete them 
> > is a big waste of all that traffic.
> > 
> > I'm sure something could be done for someone that wants an offline 
> > archive, but how many people save all this on their own systems, I 
> > know where to go if I need to recheck something, and messages that 
> > teach me something, I save in a folder.
> > 
> > I don't think the admins would have a rift over where to store the 
> > archives. lol
> 
> I mean, half of the list's archive (the previous one) would 
> reside in lurker, and the other half would reside in $forumsoftware
> 
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