[asdf-devel] Some points raised

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
writes:

> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:26 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
>> writes:
>> 
>>> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:07 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>>> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
>>>> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -3:49 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>
> ....
>
>>>>>> 2- Lack *-user mailing list and need of subscription for questions. Is
>>>>>> there a sufficiently large comunity here and do we want to open the list?
>>>>>
>>>>> With all due respect, opening a list is pretty much never a good idea.
>>>>> It's just asking for spam.  Per my response to the above complainer, I
>>>>> think it would be great if there was a help web site that
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.  Allowed OpenID login --- no need for new accounts
>>>>>
>>>>> 2.  Served up questions to the interested through email digest and RSS.
>>>>>  As a potential question-answerer, I don't have time to log in to such a
>>>>> web site.  I would need to have the questions pushed at me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any such existing software that we could adopt?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using gmane, and the overhead to subscribe is really minimal: just
>>>> reply to a message gmane sends back the first time you post...
>>>
>>> So should we just set up an asdf-help mailing list?
>> 
>> For me it would be an easy and good enough solution, yes.
>
> What's the protocol for potential help providers?  How do we scan an
> asdf-help group of this type without (1) further clogging our inboxes;
> (2) having to explicitly visit a web site?

gmane is a nntp server.


> Is there, e.g., an RSS-based solution so that we might, for example,
> glance over recent requests for help while scanning our blog
> subscriptions in Google Reader?

There's also http://gwene.org/ to pull back rss to nntp...

So you only need gnus to read those message.

But I object to rss for two reasons:

1- often the message is not complete, you only get the beginning and you
   have to go to the web to read the rest.

2- there's no way to answer.  At least, with gmane, there's an
   nntp-to-email back gateway. 

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/