[Koha] koha newby support and mailing list archives

[Pascal Van Hecke (Yahoo)]

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out some Koha questions...
(such as: "can I install it on a shared account with only Perl 5.6 enabled,
not 5.6.1", or: "has somebody already written down notes how to install it
on a shared hosting account, using the .htaccess files and not the Apache
conf files, which are not accessible on most shared hosting accounts" and
"could you provide me with some names of hosters where Koha can be
installed"...)

I already found some snippets of information using the text find option in
my browser on the threaded subjects:
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2004/thread.html

What would be really nice (I'm probably not the first one to suggest...) is
a searchable archive.

I see some options to do it without having to host it yourself:


- Marc mailing list archives http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/
- Yahoo groups: setting up the mailing list as a "remote group" (so simply
keeping your own mail list manager but adding a yahoo archive mail address
as subscriber: see for example:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midgard-user/ )
- http://gmane.org/host.php : provides a searcheable interface AND a usenet
nntp interface to the mailinglist... very handy so you can use your
favourite usenet/nttp client to monitor a whole bunch of mailinglists you're
subscribed to (example:
http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.web.midgard.user )

All of the mentioned possibilities obfuscate mail addresses or give the
possibility to do so, in order to protect your members from mail harvesting.
I also understand that the people who have developed and still maintain Koha
do not wish to give away the audience they've created to some hoster where
they do not trust privacy policy or the commercial intentions...  That's why
I would really recommend gmane.org here... Not only do the provide a
superior service, they're run by a bunch of geek volunteers whose only
intention is to make their great idea come true (http://gmane.org/faq.php).

Subscribing a list to their service: http://gmane.org/subscribe.php
Importing the already existing archives: http://gmane.org/import.php (mbox
is their preferred format).

Greetings,

pascal van hecke