Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Matt Hammond
message board instead? -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Jolly Sent: 03 March 2010 17:32 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:04, Ian Forrester wrote

RE: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
message board instead? -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Jolly Sent: 03 March 2010 17:32 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:04, Ian

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hammond Sent: 04 March 2010 10:28 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman Mailing lists are a much more developer friendly approach. Probably the most common mechanisms out there in the many developer communities (When in Rome...). Matt On Thu, 04 Mar

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Dobson
Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote: Why? What can you do on a mailing list that you can't do on a message board? Be involved in many many of them from a standard, user customisable (read infinitely customisable) system. Example: http://files.tdobson.net/ss/tbird.mail.040310.png I currently have 100+

RE: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up right... -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 04 March 2010 10:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Steff
On 4 March 2010 11:09, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up right... Anything is _possible_. But by the time you've done all that and allowed all the customisation users will want you've taken on a vast and

RE: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Tweedy
size doesn't fit all, etc etc. PT -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 04 March 2010 10:56 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman On 4 March 2010 10:40, Nick

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 March 2010 11:09, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up right... Why bodge a webboard to do things that a mailing list does already and does well. Every time I've seen a community move from a mailing list to a

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 March 2010 11:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Every time I've seen a community move from a mailing list to a webboard two things happen:- I can't count. Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

RE: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
Why would you want to do that - just clutters up an inbox... -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Michael Smethurst Sent: 04 March 2010 10:52 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 4 Mar 2010, at 15:04, Nick Reynolds-FMT wrote: Why would you want to do that - just clutters up an inbox... if $h_Sender: matches owner-([a-zA-Z-.]*)@ and not delivered then save $home/mail/lists/$1 endif Exim filter files are great. S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group.

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Northover
Of Michael Smethurst Sent: 04 March 2010 10:52 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman On 04/03/2010 10:40, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Why? What can you do on a mailing list that you can't do on a message board? Erm, mail

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-04 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 15:04, Nick Reynolds-FMT nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Why would you want to do that - just clutters up an inbox... All e-mail systems of any note have filtering forwarding capabilities which allow the receiver to choose with a high degree of granularity how up to date

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-03 Thread Dan Brickley
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Alright alright! I hear you all... So what's the first steps to make this happen? And you guys all sure you want mailman instead of something like a newsgroup or google group? If you go to mailman, folk will start

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-03 Thread Stephen Jolly
On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:04, Ian Forrester wrote: Alright alright! I hear you all... So what's the first steps to make this happen? You could walk down to my end of the office and ask me about it? :-) S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-03 Thread Mo McRoberts
On 3-Mar-2010, at 17:04, Ian Forrester wrote: Alright alright! I hear you all... So what's the first steps to make this happen? And you guys all sure you want mailman instead of something like a newsgroup or google group? Yes, go with Mailman. Don’t touch Google Groups with or without a

Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

2010-03-03 Thread Tim Dobson
Ian Forrester wrote: Alright alright! I hear you all... So what's the first steps to make this happen? And you guys all sure you want mailman instead of something like a newsgroup or google group? Let the thread begin... The previous thread was pretty conclusive; Mailman * Perhaps a