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



well there is actually a third list for ldap integration, ilm@carumba.com
but I would be glad to hand this off to openldap if that works out better.

--Jauder

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu wrote:

> > 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
> 
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