Re: [ANNOUNCE] public-inbox.org mirrors of sox-devel and sox-users

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> On Jun 29 08:49:26, normalperson@yhbt.net wrote:
> > For those of you unable to remain subscribed to SF.net,
> > I am putting JavaScript-free mirrors on public-inbox.org:
> > 
> > 	https://public-inbox.org/sox-users/
> > 	https://public-inbox.org/sox-devel/
> 
> Let me understand this: beng subscribed to the mailing list means
> I get the messages via email. What Java-Script problem problem are
> we trying to solve here? Is it the fact that the archive web page
> https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/mailman/sox-devel/
> using javascript. Is that the problem?

The problem is SourceForge is requiring users reconfirm existing
subscriptions, and that reconfirmation requires JS and CAPTCHA.

> > You can also do a read-only subscription via mlmmj using:
> > 	sox-users+subscribe@public-inbox.org
> > 	sox-devel+subscribe@public-inbox.org
> > This will enable you to read messages posted to the
> > associated address @lists.sourceforge.net, but not post...
> 
> What good is a maling list I cannot post to?

I still find reading archives useful.  Sorry for the old message
bounces, though, I misconfigured mlmmj and did not fix it
quickly, enough.

> > I'm not sure how to enable posting via public-inbox.org
> > addresses.  I suppose I can throw together some Perl and
> > forward posts to SF.net using my personal address, with
> > correct attribution...
> 
> Please don't. Let there be _one_ place for the actual mailing list to exist
> (be it SF ore anything else); there are plenty of archove sites indexing
> the SoX lists already, e.g.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=sox-users&r=1&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=sox-devel&r=1&w=2

Those links will likely stop updating unless marc.info reconfirm
all their subscriptions (and every other SF list).

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