"people wanted to be independent of red hat" ???

[Nigel Jones]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 07.06.2007 21:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 07.06.2007 18:55, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>>>>   We have 
>>>>>> a current working solution in place right now for this.
>>>>> You mean the mailman that runs this list? Or for a
>>>>> lists.fedoraproject.org? I'm fine with doing the reorganization on this
>>>>> server, but back months ago a lot of people wanted a dedicated server.
>>>> Nope, I mean where its hosted now.
>>> As I said: I'm fine with continuing to use it. But back earlier this year
>>> 1. -- people wanted to get a subdomain with a "list" prefix
>> Who are these people? Maybe they should speak up if this is such an
>> issue?
> 
> They spoke. It's should be in the archives (December or January iirc) of
> fedora-devel somewhere; on fab also.
> 
> The situation in short as far as I remember it: I asked people if they
> wanted a list prefix or not. There were people for both camps. Then
> someone said: having a "list" in the domainname (such as
> lists.fedora-project.org or lists.gnome.org) makes it obvious that you
> are writing to a list. Back then that was afaics the solution most
> people preferred.
My understanding is this can be done without Fedora having their own
mailman servers (I believe mailman has settings for this as I seem to
recall Wikimedia doing this).


N.J.