[Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion list to Google groups

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Istvan Albert wrote:

> I am sure one can come up with  unlikely yet equally pessimistic  
> scenarios for the existing setup as well.

My point was that this is not unlikely at all. It happened with some  
of Yahoo's services, and it happened with others rather popular ones.

If you own and operate your own brand, your equipment can still go out  
of order. But at least it's under your own control. Do you see that  
difference? Would you argue that that is unimportant?

> This mailman setup is a throttle - it imposes a negative feedback on  
> the amount of messages that it can handle.

I really don't know what you mean by this. I get 200 messages a day  
from various lists. I'd be dead if I had an email client that can't  
thread and can't filter, but I do have one that can (and it's free).  
GMail can do both too, and is free. Have you tried a threading email  
reader? Can you explain how reading newsgroups through a threaded and  
filtering news reader is different and more efficient than reading  
emails through a threaded and filtering email reader?

That all being said, if what's at issue here is to have a Google Group  
interface to the Biopython mailing list, then that's actually easy to  
achieve. Someone (ideally one of the current list or project admins/ 
owners) creates a (presumably identically named) Google Group, and  
sets it to mirror the mailman mailing list.

Guys - I'm happy to help with that if you don't know how to do that.  
Create the group, subscribe drycafe at gmail.com, and make me an admin.  
I'll configure the mirroring.

	-hilmar

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