RFC: lists.joomla.org

[infogerance]

Hi all,
I am a new member, but I will have to work a lot on joomla (a ong term work), with a Malagasy local team.
We are most used with traditional mailing lists and the joomla.org only have web based forums.
I would suggest the introduction of Mailing Lists.
No servers? We have one under used. A dedicated low cost server, located in France.
The request would be to point lists.joomla.org to our server and then we could host and manage the mailing lists.
I think in long term cooperation, without any advertising banners (like the ones in SourceForge), any "money related" things. Without reward, then.
Well... some in here might have questions, suggestions,...

[brad]

Thanks for your suggestions.

We're quite happy handling our own lists, as they are only for internal communication anyway.

[infogerance]

Ok.
So can I request a [joomla-users] mailing list? (resp. joomla-devel and so on...)
We have, here in madagascar, very low bandwidth, and charging the forum is really slow. Email might be lighter (is people dont post HTML messages...)
It's a necessity for productivity, here.
I take the example of the Ubuntu project: Although there are forums which mirror the mailing list, We'd rather use the mailing lists for bandwidth saving.

[brad]

You can always follow the dev list: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-devel

.. but I am not sure that is going to be much help to you. Sorry.