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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-04-22 01:39:23 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-04-22 01:40:09 +0000
commit57751a63bd6b3cb06deb0f3ad761237efd4d653b (patch)
treefb97ec2b8d0168e3c144ae6a3666c1c41ca2dd77
parent7b18f5b94e4ae4e4aaabb14e233bf43e560ba84a (diff)
downloadolddoc-57751a63bd6b3cb06deb0f3ad761237efd4d653b.tar.gz
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.
-rw-r--r--Documentation/olddoc.5.pod5
-rw-r--r--README13
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 <olddoc-public@80x24.org>
 == 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 <olddoc-public@80x24.org>
+Please send plain-text email to us at <olddoc-public@80x24.org>
+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