I just had a private email about a subject on tuscany-dev, and it got me thinking why that might be. I looked at the interface for the mailing list archive that we direct people to from our website, and it offers no route to responding back to the list, but instead had a pushbutton that allows you to respond to the individual that made the original posting (e.g. see the bottom of http://www.mail-archive.com/tuscany-dev@ws.apache.org/msg11324.html). I wonder whether we should be using a different archive, or trying to influence a change to the interface to the current one?
The document at http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html says ... Archives for public mailing lists are available at a number of locations, including: - Apache Mail Archives <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/> - MARC <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/> - mail-archive.com and tuscany-dev is available from the first and the third of these, but neither with very good interfaces. Googling for alternative servers is not easy, but I came up with http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.apache.webservices.tuscany.develwhich offers the list in 4 different formats. The threaded HTTP view does offer the capacity to post back to the list, and to search it, but is still quite clumsy. I haven't dug into the other views. Does anyone have any views or experiences on viewing the list from other archives? Should we change the archive server we recommend? Regards, Kelvin.
