From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE572037F for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 01:49:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric Wong To: Subject: [PATCH 3/3] doc: update wording to avoid "mailing list" Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 01:49:06 +0000 Message-Id: <20190422014906.4253-4-e@80x24.org> In-Reply-To: <20190422014906.4253-1-e@80x24.org> References: <20190422014906.4253-1-e@80x24.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: The concept of a "mailing list" infers the existence of a centralized subscriber list, and hurts forkability. Mail archives are easily forkable, subscriber lists are not. --- Documentation/olddoc.5.pod | 5 ++--- README | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/olddoc.5.pod b/Documentation/olddoc.5.pod index bda770f..6e03e3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/olddoc.5.pod +++ b/Documentation/olddoc.5.pod @@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ configuration to deal with. HTML file that will be merged into RDoc after-the-fact. It is useful for merging non-RDoc generated HTML into the project. -`ml_url` is the mailing list archive location. -`public_email` is the email address of a publically archived mailing list -at `ml_url` +`ml_url` is the mail archive location. +`public_email` is the email address of a mail archived at `ml_url` As of olddoc 1.2.0, `ml_url` and `nntp_url` may be YAML arrays with multiple URLs. diff --git a/README b/README index b9538e7..e902589 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -64,14 +64,15 @@ with git(7)) and send them via email to == Contact All feedback (comments, results, feature requests, bug reports, patches, -pull-requests) via plain-text mail to the mailing list is very much -appreciated. +pull-requests) via plain-text email is very much appreciated. -Please send plain-text mail to the list at +Please send plain-text email to us at +Use reply-to-all as we do not require any sort of subscription. HTML will not be read. olddoc is for GUI-phobes, by GUI-phobes. -Mailing list archives available at https://80x24.org/olddoc-public/ -and nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.lang.ruby.olddoc -No subscription will ever be necessary to post to the mailing list. +We archive all of our mail publically at: + + https://80x24.org/olddoc-public/ + nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.lang.ruby.olddoc == License -- EW