Proposition for a new list to replace Sounder

[Alan Pope]

Basil.

On 21 June 2011 12:43, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 5 days ago I posted the following message as a response to Alan in a thread
> which was already rather long and as a result I feel that many people have
> simply did not read my post as they were "fed up" with the contents of that
> thread by that stage.
>

Tip: Change the subject of the mail if you're introducing new subject
matter into the thread. That way it's more likely to get noticed than
when buried in a thread about the new desktop.

> Alan, is there any reason, *ANY* reason at all, why a new mail list could
> not be started to replace Sounder?

Plenty of reason why there couldn't, but no reason not to request one.
New lists can be requested on the Canonical IS team request tracker.
https://rt.ubuntu.com/

What purpose would the list have? We don't tend to create lists
randomly, they get requested for a particular team or project.

> But a list which:
> 1. is NOTarchived, and
> 2. is *NOT* accessed by google
>

Nothing stopping someone subscribing and archiving it. e.g.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22I+posted+the+following+message+as+a+response+to+Alan%22

> therefore making it "invisible" except to the participants of that list?
> Make the list "open-ended" but still moderated to ensure that total
> foul-mouthed

Perhaps if you'd kept the obscenity out I'd take this mail more seriously.

Al.