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[James Forrester]

2009/8/15 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton137 at gmail.com>:
> We've, recently, discussed about this on WikimediaBR-l and someone
> pointed out Google Groups archiving solution.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/wikimediabr-l/topics
>
> For me the main usability of using Google Groups is for making
> reference for a previous post. Someone even asked if Wikimedia would
> mind about the archiving using a third party platform. Do you all
> think there is some problem?

As an explanation note of this, you can create a Google Group for a
mailing list hosted on another server (in this case, WMF's mailman
installation), appear as just a normal mailing list member; Google
Groups would then provide an easy way to search and understand users'
posts. It gets treated like an "announce" list (so you can't post to
it via Google Groups, just via the normal way of e-mail), but it's
better than nothing, and very easy to set up.

J.
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James D. Forrester
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[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]