[tei-council] suggestion for tei-council accessibility

[James Cummings]

Dear TEI-council (CC'ed to Ron),

I like that others not on tei-council are following the 
conversation and commenting. (If it was a highly contentious 
discussion then I'd also have no problem them commenting publicly 
on TEI-L and referencing council discussions).

Ron suggests registering TEI-council with MarkMail as an 
additional archive which would then also provide RSS feeds, etc.

Ron: I understand your wish for an easier way to read the 
TEI-council posts, and having the list archived by MarkMail or 
similar is a possible solution.  However, David Sewell indicated 
that the list might be migrated to a newer service at virginia 
which would have the production of RSS feeds, etc. built in. 
That seems a better solution generally rather than a third party. 
  However, if this doesn't happen in a reasonable amount of time 
then we can look at MarkMail (etc.) again.

-James

On 21/05/12 15:49, ron.vandenbranden wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Sorry for chiming in unsolicitedly, but I've been following the
> conversation about TEI-council accessibility at
> <http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2012/015498.html>.
> Proving the assumptions that outsiders eventually'll want to
> participate in such discussions, I can suggest a light-weight
> solution: the MarkMail service currently mirroring the TEI-L
> archive also provides an RSS feed. For example, the feed adress
> for TEI-L is
> <http://tei.markmail.org/atom/list:edu.brown.listserv.tei-l>.
> This doesn't require any specific setup, apart from a simple
> registration of the TEI-council list and import of the archive.
> Regarding accessibility, it also adds a quite powerful search
> engine.
>
> The only prerequisites are:
> -if the archive is to be imported to MarkMail, that should be
> done in mbox format (which proved rather straightforward even for
> the much bigger TEI-L archive)
> -subscription of a MarkMail-generated (bot) email address to
> TEI-council
>
> Best,
>
> Ron


-- 
Dr James Cummings, InfoDev,
Computing Services, University of Oxford