proposal: mailing list reorganization

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:03 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote :
> 
> > Find below a proposal for a mailing list reorganization the board asked
> > me to work on.
> 
> One question : Why are all Fedora lists @redhat.com and not
> @fedoraproject.org?
> 
> With the Red Hat vs. Fedora infrastructure split, I fail to see the
> rationale behind having all Fedora mailing lists have @redhat.com
> addresses.
> 
> One suggestion : From a sysadmin point of view, I've always found it a
> lot more easy to isolate mailing-list traffic from all other mail
> traffic, typically by having all lists be @lists.domain instead of
> "plain" @domain, and have lists.domain's MX point to a mail server
> setup only for mailing-lists. This also eases web-based Mailman list
> creation, as it then "just works" with no external calls and such.
> 
> My suggestion here would be to create all new lists as
> listname at lists.fedoraproject.org and eventually migrate the existing
> ones, for which it makes sense to do so, later on.
> 

+1

It makes a nice clean break for the mailing list changeover.

-sv