[Xitami] Mailing List vs Bulletin Board.

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <Law15-F52XGsYp6HWVa0002559d@hotmail.com> "R O" writes:
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> Would it be possible to have a Bulletin Board to post Xitami questions to=
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> It would benefit the xitami user community in three ways:  1) users would=
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> continuously get emails filling up their mail boxes 2) there would be a=20
> history/record of all posts so people asking questions could do a search =
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> their question before asking it and 3) responses to a question can be=20
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> post.

Your request made me realize that perhaps Usenet might be a better
approach.  (1) it's distributed, rather than reliant upon a single server
site; (2) the propagation mechanisms are already there; (3) DejaGoogle
provides an archive and searching mechanism.

So I hunted around to see what sort of groups already exist; I had
expected to see, for example, groups discussing apache.  To my surprise,
althought there were some national groups (in japan.* and dk.*), and also
an alt group, there was nothing in the Big-8 comp.* hierarchy.

ISTM that the correct place would have been in a sub-division of
comp.infosystems.www.server.*; however, the taxonomy of that is by O/S
platform.  Is anyone on this mailing list already active anywhere within
that comp.i.w.s.* hierarchy?

> In a sense, Xitami be building a knowledge base built by its own user=20
> community.

There IS an archive of these mailing list posts: details are in the
headers.

[BTW, _one_ of the annoying aspects of a mailing list is repeated
regurgitation of untrimmed quoted material by those that post their
comments at the top.  Much unnecessary volume could be cut from this
present list if all posters learnt how to formulate replies properly.

50 unnecessarily quoted lines snipped :-( ]

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.=
uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 19=
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