On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Max Spevack mspevack@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Ah, the joys of knowing the history of these things.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/famsco/2010-January/000002.html
You'll note that the current famsco@lists.fedoraproject.org started in January 2010. No coincidence that it was at the same time as 2010's FAMSCO started, and made the decision that it was time to open that list's archives up.
I'm going to try to dig up some older mails that had the reasoning behind that, because this ground has been covered before.
Was there more behind it than making some people stop harping on and on about it? :)
So I do have still something of an issue regarding the mail list. Having an open archive is great for creating a public record of discussion, but is really bad for keeping ambassadors in the loop or otherwise engaging them in what is being discussed as remembering to periodically go read the archive not knowing what if anything has been discussed there I am sure isn't something very many people are disciplined enough to do.
If there is any way possible to either (a) open the list so I can subscribe to it and receive mail in the normal course of events or (b) mirror the mail to another list I can subscribe to and receive mail in the normal course of events or (c) tell me how I might accomplish this using the archive would make me do a backflip. I would love to keep informed but really it is too much of a burden to go check archives with any regularity for me to do that.
Thanks, John