735584 - Create mozilla.community.taiwan discussion forum

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Discussion Forums, task)

Description

[Linear Ni-Ya Li [:nli]]

Hi, 

We need a mailing list [e-mail], and the administrator's email account would be [e-mail]

Thanks for help.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Hi Bob, Ni-Ya,

Is there a reason this bug is confidential?

Our normal practice is to create a standard Mozilla discussion forum when a regional community wants a place to hang out, like those here:
https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#regional

That would mean creating a group called "mozilla.community.taiwan", with the mailing list being [e-mail].

Would there be any problem with that?

I know various political things surrounding names in this region are sensitive. Are there people we are likely to upset if we create such a group? Note that Mozilla creates groups for continents, countries, regions and other groupings - creation of a regional group is not a recognition or non-recognition of any sort of geographical status, such as 'country'. My understanding is that everyone agrees that the island is called "Taiwan" and so there should not be a problem. Is that correct?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Po-chiang Chao [:bobchao]]

Hi Gerv,

There's no special consideration about the name between tw or taiwan, tw is just shorter, and I saw the community-uk list there :). So anyway, mozilla.community.taiwan would be great, too.

Thanks!

~Bob

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

OK. Over to server-ops. Can someone please make this bug public?

Thanks,

Gerv

Comment 4

[Linear Ni-Ya Li [:nli]]

(In reply to Gervase Markham [:gerv] from comment #1)
> Hi Bob, Ni-Ya,
> 
> Is there a reason this bug is confidential?
>

oh...It's just my weird habit.
Sorry for causing problem.

The confidential item is unchecked.

Comment 5

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-taiwan

Comment 6

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

"There is no group named “mozilla.community.taiwan”."

Google Groups hasn't picked up this newsgroup, but Giganews (news.m.o) has. I've emailed Google.

Comment 7

[Linear Ni-Ya Li [:nli]]

Hello~

We are thinking about pulling the messages from the major community forum in Taiwan[1] to this mailman list. 

The administrator can manually subscribe to a Google group with [e-mail].[2] But the problem is when Google group return the confirm letter, everyone who subscribes to this list will receive the letter and can easily cancel the subscription, which is not what we want.    


Is it possible to do the subscribe thing on server side without pushing the confirm letters to end-users?


ps: Is it the right place or I should address this issue at server operations?


[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=zh-TW#!forum/moztw-general
[2] http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-subscribe-or-join-google-groups-without-google-account/

Comment 8

[Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu [:kennyluck]]

(In reply to Linear Li [:nli] (MoCo-TW) from comment #7)
> The administrator can manually subscribe to a Google group with
> [e-mail].[2] But the problem is when Google group
> return the confirm letter, everyone who subscribes to this list will receive
> the letter and can easily cancel the subscription, which is not what we
> want.    

Wouldn't the confirm letter be blocked at the administrative interface and not go to individual subscriber?

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Yes, you should be able to subscribe or unsubscribe people via the web admin interface, without need for a confirmation email.

I would be careful, though - there may be side effects to linking two mailing lists together like this...

Gerv

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is now present :-)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mozilla.community.taiwan

Gerv

Comment 11

[Linear Ni-Ya Li [:nli]]

It does work. 
Thanks Gerv :)