[admin] Hosting a mailing list

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Erik Enge wrote:

> Mario Mommer wrote:
> > How about just
> >
> >         regex-coach-{devel|announce|help}@common-lisp.net
> >
> > just no project?
>
> Ok, good point.  Then I guess Brian's list would have to be
> mac-ui-devel.  All ok with this?  If so I'll go ahead and set

I'm ok. Though I'd suggest that we offer the choise of postfix to the
original requester. For some -talk, or -list may be preferable.

While on the topic: though I like the default of -devel, -help, and
-announce, for most hosted projects this is actually a bit excessive:
-devel would seem to be enough. As a result we host a huge number of stale
lists, and while this is essentially "free" for us, it increases the
likelyhood that someone interested in project foo will subscribe to a dead
list and wonder where eveyone is...

Hence, I'd like to suggest that we from now on would by default generate
only -devel list for new projects, unless they request more. Projects
prior to 1.0 seldom need -help or -announce.

What do you think?

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus