On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 09:28, Gitte Wange wrote:
Have any of you ever concidered to setup a news server ? I think it is much easier to find the answers belonging to your questions, and it's easier to see if an answer to your question already exists ...
Yes! Unlike with mailing lists, there's no separate interface for the archives.
I agree. Squishdot has a search function. You could also create categories for the various items. Something for the dtml-in department... Ron
I would urge setting up a usenet group for zope. - it's a familiar interface for everyone - a newsreader can display threads correctly (unlike email clients) - google will archive it for you. the perfect place to look for answers to previously asked questions - avoids the clutter of receiving hundreds of emails per week This suggestion is so obvious that I'm sure someone has already made it. So I apologize for the (probable) repetition. Joe At 03:26 PM 10/21/01 +0000, you wrote:
On Sat, 2001-10-20 at 09:28, Gitte Wange wrote:
Have any of you ever concidered to setup a news server ? I think it is much easier to find the answers belonging to your
questions,
and it's easier to see if an answer to your question already exists ...
Yes! Unlike with mailing lists, there's no separate interface for the archives.
I agree. Squishdot has a search function. You could also create categories for the various items. Something for the dtml-in department...
Ron
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On Sun, 2001-10-21 at 09:45, a32955@mail-virtual.nc.rr.com wrote:
I would urge setting up a usenet group for zope.
- it's a familiar interface for everyone - a newsreader can display threads correctly (unlike email clients) - google will archive it for you. the perfect place to look for answers to previously asked questions - avoids the clutter of receiving hundreds of emails per week
This suggestion is so obvious that I'm sure someone has already made it. So I apologize for the (probable) repetition.
Unfortunately, it takes a while to set up a new usenet group and get it picked up everywhere. What I (and I think others) are advocating is a private news server (news.zope.org) that isn't neccessarily peered into the rest of Usenet. This give you greater control over spam postings, and makes it easier to administer a growing heirarchy of groups. Imagine: zope.admin zope.admin.linux zope.admin.solaris zope.announce zope.beta zope.books zope.books.announce zope.books.authors zope.books.discuss zope.hackers zope.designers zope.dev zope.dev.xml zope.dev.xml.parsed-xml zope.dev.zodb zope.dev.catalog zope.dev.catalog.indexes zope.dev.products zope.dev.webservices zope.documentation zope.dtml zope.how-do-i zope.marketing zope.marketing.case-studies zope.newbies zope.newbies.acquisition zope.scripts.python zope.scripts.perl zope.security zope.sightings zope.zeo zope.zpt Those are just ones off the top of my head. creating and managing this many mailing lists and their subscriptions is a royal pain in the butt, but it's a lot easier to adnminister (and in some cases moderate) this many newsgroups. In my opinion, doing thias will actually *increase* the level of support that beginners get, as well as provide the more specialized forums that many developers are looking for. As an example, Netscape has a set of private (as in non-usenet) newsgroups at news.mozilla.org that are very useful, and I participate in another set of newsgroups over at news.sff.net which form a very lively community. Anyway, that's what *I* think. Michael Bernstein.
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