[SAC] Mailing List Administration

[Tyler Mitchell]

I'm not familiar with all the problems or headaches with these kinds  
of search options, so I can't comment on them technically - but I'll  
at least through out a few opinions...

I personally don't like the idea of outsourcing a critical tool to a  
closed system or commercial service unless necessary.  Are we really  
wanting to use a tool that puts unmanaged advertisements on 'our'  
content?

Do they provide good support and have any sort of guarantees around  
availability into the future?  Just curious if we'll get left without  
any options and have to build our own eventually anyway.

Wouldn't it also be good to maintain/drive traffic back to our sites  
so we can get more of a glimpse of who our users are?

Who can edit OSGeo-related categories on Nabble?

Of course, easy for me to say since I'm not familiar with how hard it  
is to maintain a search tool :)

Leaving it to the experts...
Tyler

On 15-Jan-07, at 11:37 AM, Jason Birch wrote:

> Would anyone have an objection to linking to Nabble for list archives,
> searching, etc?
>
> http://www.nabble.com/OSGeo.org-f18127.html
>
> I don't personally use this tool (I keep my own archives) but many
> others have found it useful, and it means that we don't have to  
> maintain
> htdig/swish-e/lucene/whatever...
>
> Many of the OSGeo projects already had their posts mirrored there,  
> and I
> just added them to the OSGeo.org node as children (which doesn't  
> affect
> their other locations).  We could look into adding anything else  
> that is
> missing.
>
> Jason
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 09:33
> To: sac at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [SAC] Mailing List Administration
>
> Folks,
>
> I have started a wiki page on Mailing lists off the "SAC" page in the
> wiki.
>
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SAC:Mailing_Lists
>
> Please feel free to extend, etc.
>
> Best regards,
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