On the mailing list page at
sourceforge.maxima.net
(i.e., the page http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html )
how about replacing the sentence
To see the collection of prior postings to maxima at math.utexas.edu,
visit the (link to:) http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/
by
To see the collection of prior postings to maxima at math.utexas.edu,
visit the pages
(link to:) http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
or
(link to:) http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/
I did not check "nabble." That could be included, too.
Also, I did not want to put a "may be slightly out of date, but
useful for old posts" statement before the link to utexas because
maybe they can be induced to keep it up to date.
-sen
> Vadim,
>
> Agreed that mailing list archives are very valuable.
>
> I've sent email to UT-Austin (Maorong Zou) but I didn't get a reply.
>
> Is anyone on this list in Austin? It seems to me that by showing
> up in person, any request would have a much better chance of success.
>
> About Sourceforge, there are a couple of issues.
>
> (1) SF has its own mailing list issues. (1a) At present the mailing archives
> for maxima-commits and maxima-bugs are out of date, and when I
> submitted a support request to fix that (today) I saw that a few other
> projects reported the same problem. (1b) There were reports a couple
> of months ago that SF didn't play nice with Gmail messages, and
> today I saw similar reports about email originating from two other
> domains. I believe this is about SF attempting to prevent spam.
>
> (2) Moving the mailing list to SF would probably involve some
> frustration on the part of new subscribers who are directed by
> various pages out there on the web to subscribe to
> maxima at math.utexas.edu . I can probably move the existing
> subscribers en masse so it's new subscribers that would bump
> into this problem. Maybe it's possible to set up the utexas.edu
> address to forward automatically to SF; I don't know.
>
> (3) A lesser problem is that the mailing list archives at SF
> are rather less convenient than at UT. The SF pages are
> burdened with a lot of cruft, and the only way to get a plain
> text dump (mbox) is to submit a support request.
>
> I guess at this point I'm not inclined to move the mailing list.
> Maybe we should just try harder to direct people to Gmane
> or Nabble or whatever for the archive. Comments?
>
> FWIW
> Robert
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