[Mageia-sysadm] presentations

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 15:52 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 
> > PS Can the reply-to for this list be set to the list address please?
> 
> Done
> 
> FYI, I am in favor of changing from mailman to sympa ( because mailman
> default are annoying, and because sympa can get users from ldap, which
> seems to be a big win in the long run ).

Yes. I agree.

> And I would also like to make this list public ( albeit with restricted
> posting for us ). Public because :
> - we want to promote openess
> - we can refer to our discussions to others groups this way
> - people who will join the team later will be able to see how we work
> before joining
> - people will ( I hope ) not ask us news when they can have the same
> level of access than us to the information
> - we can use a external search engine to find our discussions
> - we will not appear like cabal 
> - and others sysadmins groups ( for other projects ) could get
> information from us, which could help them to setup their own projects
> 
> I see however some downsides :
> - we cannot discuss confidential or private matters ( like people real
> name, security incident if there is a embargo )
> - we should take care of not telling too much about us ( example : "i am
> gone in holiday for 3 weeks, come and rob my house" )
> 
> WDYT ?

I agree that most discussions should be public. Maybe we could have a
second mailing list for public discussions. And keep this one private,
to receive crontab emails (if they can potentially contain confidential
infos), and other private emails ?

Nicolas