Changing discussion to something else

Chris Forsythe chris at growl.info
Mon Jun 4 16:11:01 EDT 2007


Ethan Blanton wrote:

>Chris Forsythe spake unto us the following wisdom:
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>
>>Ethan Blanton wrote:
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>>>It is not discussion at pidgin.im, which would indeed be confusing; it is
>>>discussion at imfreedom.org.  I think the problem is that it shows up in
>>>the pipermail archives on pidgin.im; this is apparently some problem
>>>with the tools (it is not trivial to fix this, I guess?), which we
>>>will no doubt eventually solve.
>>>      
>>>
>>I'd disagree about this being the reason. Take a look here:
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>>http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/
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>>Basically I'm suggesting that people aren't reading the description, and 
>>are instead just picking the list they think they should be using based 
>>on the name of the list.
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>What are you disagreeing about?  Discussion should not even *show up*
>in that list, is what I am saying; it is not an @pidgin.im mailing
>list.  If it isn't there, then people can't get confused, can they?
>
>(I see that that is not a pipermail URL, but a mailman URL; maybe that
>is the source of disagreement?  I thought all of that junk was handled
>by pipermail.  The high-order bit remains that it is *not* a pidgin.im
>mailing list, and should not show up on pidgin.im.)
>  
>

Ah, that's not how I read your email. Then yes, we both agree.

Chris




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