Re: [infobot] infobot mailing lists

[Tim R. <Ti...@Ri...>]

I've tried to contact Kevin a number of times and gotten no reply. I was 
hoping he'd be on the Perl Whirl cruise this year, but I did not see him 
on the list.

Everyone I've talked to agrees that infobot is dead in it's current 
form. There are a ton of forks with new names and most of them have 
implemented the same types fo features, but differently.

My hope would be to get some of the forks back working on the same set 
of sources. More eyes/hands equals faster progress.

I'd like to come to some consensus as to a new design first. If that's 
not possible than the forks will continue.

I am currently using blootbot mostly because I got sick of maintaining 
my own patches to infobot and nobody on the project was responding at 
the time.

As for the mailing lists... I guess I don't care much one way or the 
other.  I would like a cvs commits list, and SF already offered list 
archiving etc. so I went that direction as the path of least resistance. 
Do you run the current list or just archive it?

If you don't who does run the current list? metronomicon.com is another 
of kevin's domains, so I presume it would be kevin himself.

Anyone close to Pittsburg that can ping Kevin?

Oh, and thanx for running the searchable list! I've used it many times.

Do you have a preference? ie: would you like to still host the 
searchable lists or would you rather we just use SF? SF does archiving 
but no real searching. Having the search feature is nice.

ho...@mi... wrote:
> I've been running a searchable mailing list archive for the infobot
> list for some time on request way back in (I think) 1999, still linked
> from the Infobot site, at:
> 
> http://www.missprint.org/infobot/
> 
> What would you all like me to do with this?  Subscribe the new list
> to it and continue archiving, or leave it?
> 
> Has anyone had any contact with Kevin Lenzo over this?  Tim, have you
> tried to contact him at http://www.cepstral.com or other addresses
> via Google?  If the (seemingly dead) project is being forked without
> successful contact with the owner, should it have a new name?


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