Hi, congratulations! Though slashdot 'elected' RSS (http://blogspace.com/rss/) as the replacement for spam loaded discussion lists, a plain web based board is a really good start. One pretty fundamental question, though: to make the migration smoother it would be very helpful if we could have the roottalk mailing list mirrored at the web forum. Is that possible? Cheers, Axel. > Dear Rooters, > > this mail is to announce the opening of the new "RootTalk Forum". > > Although we are in the process of installing spamassassin to reduce the > amount of spam sent to the roottalk mailing list, we now also have > created a RootTalk Forum. We believe that the model offered by a forum > scales better with a growing user community than a mailing list. A > mailing list pushes information to a large number of people (> 1000 for > roottalk) which is a considerable waste, especially if many people are > mostly interested in the answers to their own questions. With a forum, > on the other hand, the user pulls only the information he needs when he > needs it. In addition a forum allows easy creation of sub-forums, better > browsing, threads that can always be added to or updated, etc. > > The ROOT team will do its best to animate the forum like we are > animating the mailing list and for the time being the two will co-exist. > If you subscribe to the forum, feel free to un-subscribe from the > mailing list to reduce the load on our mailing system. > > The forum is available at http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/. There is also a > link to it from the left column on the ROOT home page. > > > Cheers, Fons. > > -- > Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. > Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland > E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 > WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480 > >
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