On Saturday 20 October 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Well, first of all I should note that the choice was whether to update > > the list on www.hamakor.org.il, or restore the IGLU list, and update it > > somewhat. Restoring the IGLU list was much less work for me. > > > > The problems I see in the www.hamakor.org.il page are: > > > > 1. Is in Hebrew. There are mailing lists whose main language is English, > > and it is possible that English speakers woudl like to subscribe them or > > otherwise learn about them. > > > > 2. Contain only a small subset of the information the original list > > contained. > > > > 3. Contains only a small part of the lists that are contained there. (And > > apparently only those in the domains of hamakor.org.il). > > Well, why don't you fix those problems, then? I'm sure no one will > complain if you put up an English page as well. >
Fixing these problems in the new page will be much more effort than restoring the original page, and with less gain. > > Plus, is there a way to add a mailing list by using meta-data, and let > > the page generate it or do I need to edit the HTML by hand? I generate > > the pages using meta-data and some Perl code. > > Shlomi, this is (again) the wrong forum. > Fine. I asked, because this is one thing that I like about my current list-of-mailing-lists system, and am not sure exists in the new one. > > I already have such permissions. (Thanks to Dotan). > > I anxiously expect your contributions. I'll contribute when I have something to contribute. If you have any areas that need help, let me know and I'll try to dedicate some time to help with that. > > > BTW, is it possible to assign more meaningful URLs to the pages in the > > hamakor.org.il's Joomla than > > http://www.hamakor.org.il/content/view/17/26/, which is pretty > > meaningless. > > Last I checked, you also had permissions to edit .htaccess. I still > anxiously expect your contributions. Mod rewrite really is your friend > here. mod_rewrite is a kludge and tends to break more often than not. I'd rather configure such URLs at the Joomla level. > If Joomla has a better way of doing it, well, you have permissions > over that as well. Thanks for giving me the permissions and I'll try to investigate that. > > Bitching about stuff on open mailing lists is NOT the way to solve > problems. Particularly not problems you have permissions to solve. If > you don't like the way things are, make them better. I wasn't bitching. I mentioned some things that disturbed me and explained why I decided to restore the original mailing lists' list at a temporary location instead of the new one. It wasn't done maliciously, but as something I remembered when looking at the page on hamakor.org.il. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
