Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:26 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:07 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -3:49 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
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2- Lack *-user mailing list and need of subscription for questions. Is there a sufficiently large comunity here and do we want to open the list?
With all due respect, opening a list is pretty much never a good idea. It's just asking for spam. Per my response to the above complainer, I think it would be great if there was a help web site that
Allowed OpenID login --- no need for new accounts
Served up questions to the interested through email digest and RSS.
As a potential question-answerer, I don't have time to log in to such a web site. I would need to have the questions pushed at me.
Is there any such existing software that we could adopt?
I'm using gmane, and the overhead to subscribe is really minimal: just reply to a message gmane sends back the first time you post...
So should we just set up an asdf-help mailing list?
For me it would be an easy and good enough solution, yes.
What's the protocol for potential help providers? How do we scan an asdf-help group of this type without (1) further clogging our inboxes; (2) having to explicitly visit a web site?
gmane is a nntp server.
Is there, e.g., an RSS-based solution so that we might, for example, glance over recent requests for help while scanning our blog subscriptions in Google Reader?
There's also http://gwene.org/ to pull back rss to nntp...
So you only need gnus to read those message.
But I object to rss for two reasons:
1- often the message is not complete, you only get the beginning and you have to go to the web to read the rest.
2- there's no way to answer. At least, with gmane, there's an nntp-to-email back gateway.