[Vwdiesel] list archive, yet again...

[Gary Shea]

I have stumbled upon a new online list archive site, www.gmane.org, that
looks like it will work for this list.  It's a little different than
most such sites, in that you read the list archives using a news reader,
but since the most popular browsers know how to do that it should be no
big deal.

It has the advantage that it acts as a subscriber, unlike yahoo lists
which insist on hosting the list.  It doesn't require the list provider
to do anything.  I am in the process of submitting a request for
subscription, but wanted to run it past y'all first.

This list is fairly obscure and as such not many people see our email
addresses.  I am planning on signing the list up with 'address
encryption' turned on.  This means that any email addresses in a list
message will be rewritten into a native gmane.org address.  People can
still send you mail but will have to go through an intermediate
challenge/response phase of demonstrating that they are people not
marketing robots.  This is a bit tedious for folks who want to send mail
directly to an individual, but it's real nice for us.

I'm assuming everyone is ok with this, but will wait until noon tomorrow
to submit the request so folks have a chance to speak up.

Oh, yeah, this site will also allow us to submit archives, and I'll
volunteer (again!) to coordinate that, once the site is successfully
receiving and archiving the list.

Regards,

        Gary