Robert Goldman <[email protected]> writes: > On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:26 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> Robert Goldman <[email protected]> >> writes: >> >>> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:07 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >>>> Robert Goldman <[email protected]> >>>> 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. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
