From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 06:00:12 EDT
Hi all,
[Apologies to all who've already seen the forwarded post on roottalk].
Fons has created a WWW forum for ROOT/CINT questions, bug-reports,
feature requests, discussions, and so on. The idea is, that the
roottalk mailing list is growing too large, and too many people use an
inferior OS, causing a lot of SPAM to be sent to the members of the
list.
The Forum promises a lot more flexible Q/A cycles, and many other
features. So if you previously subscribed to roottalk, but found it
too heavy, perhaps you'll enjoy the forum better. If you didn't
subscribe to roottalk, perhaps you should consider registering with
the forum ... it just may be that the question _you_ have is already
answered there.
There's a search feature on the forum that even non-logged in people
guests can use.
And while we're on the subject of search engines: What about that
search engine on the BRAHMS mailing-lists and web-pages? I see 3
distinct possibilities (in order of preference):
1: Get RCF to install a search engine on the WWW server, with
limited access. HtDig or Glimpse are good choices.
2: Put the BRAHMS web-pages on a pii machine, make
`www.brahms.bnl.gov' an alias for that machine, and install
HtDig or Glimpse on the machine.
3: Get Google to do (restricted) indexing on the BRAHMS web-pages.
They do that for free for academia, and we can limit access to
the search engine if needed.
Yours,
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attached mail follows:
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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