On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:20:02PM -0400, François Pinard wrote:
[Pofeng Lee]
But I think we can set up a mailing list gateway
between zh(a)li.org &
zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw to avoid political problem :-) .
Patrick, would you have `zh(a)li.org' forward into `zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw'?
I can do this quite easily however, as Pofeng mentions in his email, there
may be political consequences of using Taiwanese resources/mailing list
to develop ZH support for GNU/Linux. I seem to have missed much of the
discussion regarding this change, so could someone just send me a quick
email outlining why we're making this change? Thanks.
Doing so, messages sent to `zh(a)li.org' will be
seen by `zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw'
members. But if you also manage to send `zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw' into
`zh(a)li.org'#39;, I presume loops might occur unless special dispositions are
taken to avoid such problems. Could current `zh(a)li.org' members subscribe
into `zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw'?
Hmm. I'm not sure what the best solution is. It's difficult trying
to synchronise two mailing lists to each other. The best option is
to use one mailing list for all traffic - whether that mailing list
live in the USA (zh(a)li.org) or Taiwan (zh-l10n(a)li.org.tw). Then there
are no synchronisation problems or mail loops. And subscribers of the
list receive all messages.
Of course, you may also wish to have the two mailing lists separate from
each other. Or a third option might be to subscribe one list to the other
so that email sent to the first list would be automatically forwarded to
the second list.
Regards,
Patrick D'Cruze