Re: [ldap] Re: What other mailing lists are there ?

[Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu]

> As the current maintainer of ldap@umich.edu, I've meant to say this
> sooner, but I've been busy...
> 
> I don't know what were the intentions of Tim Howes when he worked here
> at UMich and started this mailing list, but my feeling is that
> ldap@umich.edu may be used to discuss LDAP in general, not just the
> UMich implementation.  ...
> 
> My reasons for saying that this list should be open are:
> 		...
> 	It has been a long while since the UMich distribution has been
> 	updated and it may be longer, if ever, that it gets another
> 	update.  That limits its usefulness, so why limit this list
> 	to just that?

That said, I've been wondering what people would think about merging 
ldap@umich.edu into openldap-general@openldap.org, because..

- the openldap effort is the apparent de-facto non-commercial successor of the 
UMich LDAP effort,

- both lists are about LDAP in general - so why have two?

Also, I note that as far as I can see, there is not an LDAP newsgroup other 
than fj.net.ldap -- which is apparently in Japanese. I suggest that someone 
oughta start up one, e.g. comp.directories.ldap, and perhaps gateway it to the 
openldap-general dl (dunno what all the politics in the usenet world would be 
surrounding such a move, tho. perhaps none, perhaps something).

Jeff