Re: LDAP forum (was: fascism)

[Christopher Hicks <chicks@chicks.net>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> A general LDAP list already exists: ldap@umich.edu. Unfortunately it is 
> set up strangely, so you receive half a dozen vacation messages or even 
> bounce messages (for messages that do reach the list) for each message 
> you send.  Maybe OpenLDAP could take over that list, like they took over 
> the rest of Umich LDAP?

Absolutely.  Any of those things would be progress.

> Or maybe it's about time to create a newsgroup comp.infosystems.ldap or 
> something?

Newsgroups aren't nearly as useful as mailing lists generally.  Google 
groups helps, but its still not nearly as conducive to technical 
conversations as a well-run mailing list.

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</chris>

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