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

[Chris Fields]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

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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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 	-hilmar

That would probably be a good idea for all the (most trafficked) open-bio groups.  I'll work on it from the bioperl end.

chris