[plug] plug mailing list vs Forum

[James Devenish]

In message <380-22004642412443890 at westnet.com.au>
on Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:04:43PM +0800, johnmorcos wrote:
> i agree , i think we need something that doesnt have all the extra
> fruit in it, i cant see how we would need a large infrastructure to
> run just one forum.

By the way, the PLUG website runs off an Xbox (the mailing list is
served on a different machine: an old HyperSPARC clone). Other people
know much more about all this than I do.

> i think the search functionality is a great way to create a archive
> of all the great snipits of knowledge for new users and old users.

Google seems to have been serving the general public well. I have now
added a Google search to the "listinfo" pages, so that it's more
visible: http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
Not sure if this can be done for the Pipermail pages, too:
http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/pipermail/plug/

Note: the Google form only works because I have implemented a workaround
for a Mailman bug -- may cease to work at an arbitrary time in future.