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@li.org & zh-l10n@li.org.tw to avoid political problem :-) .
Patrick, would you have `zh@li.org' forward into `zh-l10n@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@li.org' will be seen by `zh-l10n@li.org.tw' members. But if you also manage to send `zh-l10n@li.org.tw' into `zh@li.org', I presume loops might occur unless special dispositions are taken to avoid such problems. Could current `zh@li.org' members subscribe into `zh-l10n@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@li.org) or Taiwan (zh-l10n@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