[Mitgcm-support] Re: Web page + mailing lists

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

chris wrote:
> Can't we start with one mailing list that is ***maintained***

There already is *one* that *is* maintained: support at mitgcm.lcs.mit.edu
Forgetting ECCO, there's only one list and it doesn't contain
half the people that might care about new checkpoints but those
people probably don't want to see email like this which is why
there have been kept off it by the maintainer.

> that has XXXX at mitgcm.org as its name

Any mailing list on chaucer will be able to be XXXX at mitgcm.org
(so long as mitgcm.org resolves to a real machine, otherwise
it requires the MX records for the domain to be set up properly)
We also need mitgcm to point to chaucer which it doesn't. It also
needs sendmail to be properly configured to not translate
mitgcm.org to bronte.lcs.mit.edu which is where I'm sending this mail.

> and whose name does not change.

No names have been changing. There are simply a set of old lists
from the Hypernews days which were never used by anyone. You may
consider them deleted.

So I take it you'd rather not have a bug tracking system
and just one newsgroup/mailing list with everyone on it?