Re: [OctDev] moving Octave Forge mailing list to core's mailman server

[Olaf T. <i7...@t-...>]

Hi Carnë,

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 07:17:40PM +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I'm proposing moving the current Octave Forge mailing list
> (oct...@li...) to the same server as as the ones
> from Octave core. My suggestion is to have the following octave
> related mailing lists:
> 
> * mai...@oc... - same as now, discussion of development of Octave core
> * fo...@oc... - new mailing list for discussion of development of
> Octave Forge
> * he...@oc... - mailing list for discussion of any help related to
> Octave (packages included)

I'd vote for pro.

But I'd call it pac...@oc..., so it is clearer what is meant.
Also, 'forge' relates to SourceForge, doesn't it? And who can be sure
that the package repository will stick to SourceForge forever.

> ...
>
> Other reasons:
> * some e-mails are sent for more than one mailing list. If the same
> mailman server is handling them, this should prevent people from
> receiving 2 e-mails with the same subject.

Really? It does not seem to be so with octave-help and
octave-maintainers now. And actually I would like to see what list a
mail was meant for, even if there was more than one destination.

But I really think duplicating mails should be avoided at all. One
reason for the suggested change could be to avoid duplicates. But it
does not seem to avoid duplicates between 'forge' and
octave-maintainers.

Regards,

Olaf

> ...

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