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

[lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de]

What about a free forum e.g. smf (http://www.simplemachines.org/) on 
the biopython homepage?

I'm using this too and I'm quite happy. Easy building, maintaining...
Just an idea...

Zitat von Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at drycafe.net>:

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> On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Istvan Albert wrote:
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>> I am sure one can come up with  unlikely yet equally pessimistic  
>> scenarios for the existing setup as well.
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> 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?
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>> 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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