On 18 Mar 2003, Michael Nordstr�m observed:

> Don't you think these kind of messages belong on plucker-dev? ;-)
>
> Anyway, please don't use a message about a completely different
> subject as a "template" unless you remove the references from the
> header (they screw up the threading; I can fix it manually for my
> own archive, but our mail archive can't)

And Edward Rayl wrote, in connection with something else:

> I did not intend for the previous message to go to the list :-(  Please
> disregard the stylesheets. 

And I thought, why not move away from mailing lists to a newsserver 
approach?  We could have several newsgroups, development, newusers, plucker 
desktop, jpluck and other tools, urls and xsl stylesheets, or whatever is 
judged useful.

I don't know if David has resources to handle it but I can think of a 
couple of advantages: 

It would be more obvious where users should direct their enquiries to so 
you shouldn't find simple new user problems showing up in more technical 
discussions and the like.  The about box in the viewer currently directs 
all users to plucker-dev which must be partly the reason why questions 
about jpluck are increasingly common here.  

It's easier to jump in and out of discussions, and persons can choose how 
frequently they follow each group.

On the downside, maybe archival would not be as easy but traffic on the 
mailing lists isn't very heavy so the newsserver can have a long article 
retention time.

What do you think?

s h e h u
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