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[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:55:00PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> > It has, but for now, we're not going to do this.  We want to take
> >  advantages of the additional information and collaborative aspects of
> >  Launchpad to improve the mailing list experience, so Launchpad
> >  membership is a necessary requirement.  We will be able to import
> >  archives for those existing lists that want to move to Launchpad though.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by some of this, but requiring a launchpad
> account would mean that upstreams won't/can't use lp for mailing list
> hosting.

I find that statement really hard to sympathize with. The user will need
to be identified to manipulate his ML subscription -- so what difference
does it make if it's a Launchpad account or a mailing list account? At
least with Launchpad it's a single account for any Launchpad-hosted
mailing list.

> Well currently it looks like sourceforge mailing lists still have a
> clear advantage.

Except they don't really, since you need to register separately for each
SF-hosted mailing list.
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