At 10:19 PM 17/02/2006, you wrote:
Hi,
On Friday, February 17, 2006 at 18:14:08, scsijon wrote:
> 1-
> there are 23 major written language groups currently used on the
> planet, there are
> additionally some 158 dialect variations.
>
> even if you only support the major language groups you will need some
> physical space
> and people time to translate between, or is it the intention to only
> cover topics within their own language group?
What? We are talking about mailinglists here. Not about some websites...
extracted from your earlier message
[email protected] - General in english
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - General in german
and so for french
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - General in french
and so for spanish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - General in spanish
etc, etc
and so on for each "topic"
> 2-
> have you thought about the matrix neccesary as you expand?
What exactly do you mean by "matrix"?
the hardware space, processing power running software, personpower support
necessary for 1- above
> 3-
> can it be from the start that everything is in text (no html or
> closed format attachments)
> for security, etc. (I for one have autodelete on for all attachments)
As the mailinglists allow only plain text you wont have anything else in
the archives...
good, many out there are not.
> 4-
> how will the mailing format to people go, message by message to all
> subscribed
Yes. Thats how mailinglists work. For some lists there might be a digest
mode but that usually sucks big time. See the FAQ of our other lists.
Q3. How to I get the list in digest form instead of separate emails?
A3. We don't offer digested lists for several reasons:
1) Most of our lists (especially this one) are far to large to
make digests useful.
2) In our experience, digests tend to decrease the quality of
list postings.
3) Usually, when people request digests what they are really
asking for is a way to keep the list mail from flooding
their mailbox and making it harder to find and read non-list
mail. This is a valid concern and one that is best handled
with mail filtering, not digests.
disagree here, digest mode is responsable mailing and becoming a
major requirement in business and a requested standard for the future.
Digests should come out daily.
It just means someone has to do some design rule work and from those
in digest mode that I use now I am provided with links to the full message
if I want view it, that decision is left to me, not some message administrator.
Also a number if ISP's are now either limiting messages from a single source
or marking them SPAM. This is increasing as the webmasters talk together.
mail filtering is primarily for another purpose, local splitting of messages,
it should not be needed to be used for this.
> 5-
> finally, do we need such a large breakup as project, or would this be
> better set as the first word
> of the topic (or am i taking the word the wrong meaning)
That would mean that seperation of topics is up to users. That does not
work.
no, this should be set by the incoming message system's filtering rules
with a search to decide which of the "topicset available" should be used.
> ps has anyone tried listing the existing forums out there and their
> purposes? maybe what is
> needed is a rehash / combine/resplit instead.
We are talking about mailinglists. Not forums...
and I meant mailing lists, there seems to be too many out there as it is
duplicating and overlapping.
scsijon
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