Hello Florian, Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 19:03 +0100, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > Hello, > > quite a while ago, we have renamed the @libreoffice.org mailing lists to > @global.libreoffice.org for technical reasons. I'd now like to do the > same for the @documentfoundation.org mailing lists, namely > > - announce > - board-discuss > - discuss > - mirrors > - moderators > - test > > The reason behind is that I'd like to split up our mail system into two > instances for reasons of load balancing and security. One should contain > all private mailing lists as well as e-mail accounts, the other one > should contain all public mailing lists. The fact that all our > communication tools are on one system at the moment is quite unfortunate. > > At @documentfoundation.org, we not only host public mailing lists, but > also e-mail accounts. One way to achieve the distinction on the server > side is to create a forwarding/transport in the mail system, but I'm not > a friend of that, it has a few drawbacks. The other option is to rename > the list part, and - like we did with libreoffice.org before - use > @global.documentfoundation.org in the future, so each subdomain can be > attached to its own MX record (mail server). > > Before doing such a change that affects many users, I wanted to ask > about your opinion. From a technical point of view, it is IMHO the best > solution. Agreeably, it is a bit annoying to update all the website > elements and links, and we can do the rename with enough time in > advance, but would you generally support this approach?
It will be annoying whatever we change :-) Is there merit in requesting that, instead of naming "global", we use something like "lists.documentfoundation.org" or "ml.documentfoundation.org" just to shorten the number of letters? Thanks, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
