What's up with google groups?

What's up with google groups?

[olsongt]

Sorry for the semi-offtopic admin stuff, but I've posted a few messages to the list via google group 'fa.caml' over the past months.  Or at least I thought I did.  They show up just fine when I look at google groups.  But they don't show up on the mailman archives at caml.inria.fr.

This makes me suspect that anyone subscribing to the list properly isn't seeing emails from people who post via Google groups.  Which might explain why the usually responsive Nicholas never answered this ocamlbuild question:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/592e166c1890f034/17890ce5f139a813?lnk=gst&q=ocamlbuild&rnum=7#17890ce5f139a813

Can this behavior be confirmed? Is there anything that can be done about it, or are we at the mercy of the mighty people at google?

I wouldn't mind it if google groups was read-only (or even non-existent for this list), but having a 'forked' version of the list seems like about the worst possible way for things to work.

Re: [Caml-list] What's up with google groups?

[Jon Harrop]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 19:09:44 olsongt@verizon.net wrote:
> Can this behavior be confirmed?

I believe the contents of this mailing list are copied to the fa.caml usenet 
group that can be viewed using Google Groups. Perhaps this should be stopped?

I've noticed quite a few people posting to fa.caml without realising that they 
are talking to themselves... :-)

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Re: [Caml-list] What's up with google groups?

[Joel Reymont]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:

> I believe the contents of this mailing list are copied to the  
> fa.caml usenet
> group that can be viewed using Google Groups. Perhaps this should  
> be stopped?

No way stopped! Google Groups is the best archive browsing interface  
by far!

> I've noticed quite a few people posting to fa.caml without  
> realising that they
> are talking to themselves... :-)

It would be awesome to have a gateway that goes the other way around.

	Joel

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Re: [Caml-list] What's up with google groups?

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le 20 juin 07 à 20:33, Joel Reymont a écrit :

> It would be awesome to have a gateway that goes the other way around.

If that it not possible I'd also be in favor of closing the google  
group.

Gmane [1] allows bidirectional access with nntp and http (+ rss  
reading), and you don't need a google account.

Daniel

[1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general

Re: [Caml-list] What's up with google groups?

[Joel Reymont]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Daniel Bünzli wrote:

> Gmane [1] allows bidirectional access with nntp and http (+ rss  
> reading), and you don't need a google account.

The Google interface is better by far.

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