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Re: Snort.org Blog: Google Groups are alive!


From: Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:16:32 -0500

Google Groups are essentially a forum/mailing list/"usenet-like" group, all in one.

You can signup for the Google Group, you can post there via the web.  The people who have signed up via email will 
receive your web-post as an email, and they can respond via email, which is then put back into the discussed, threaded, 
so you can read and reply via web.

Vice versa as well.

Joel

On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, L0rd Ch0de1m0rt wrote:

HELLO.

What the hell are Google Groups?

Thanks.

-L0rd C.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

http://blog.snort.org/2011/02/google-groups-are-alive.html

Google Groups are alive!

Late last year I put out a poll that discussed the merging of the Mailing
lists and Forums and it seemed that most of the people that answered the
poll thought that Google Groups was the way to go (82% of you!).

So we've stood up three Google Groups that mimic our Snort Mailing lists.
 These groups are unmoderated, open to the community for posting, and have
the same criteria as our mailing lists.

Snort-Users
Snort-Signatures
Snort-Devel

 Right now the Google Groups and the Mailing lists are not merged and do not
cross post (they used to, but after testing a bit, it didn't really
integrate correctly, so the link was broken this morning).

If you join the Google Groups and you select "email" as your delivery
method, you will receive an email for every post (just like the Mailing
list), even the subject tags will be the same.  i.e. [Snort-Users],
[Snort-Sigs], and [Snort-Devel]

As of March 1, 2011, the forums at Snort.org will be locked and will be read
only.  The content will still be preserved, however, after that date, no
more posting will be allowed.  A persistent banner has been put on
http://forums.snort.org to remind people of this fact.

At this time we are not merging the Mailing Lists and Google Groups.  We'll
let it balance out for awhile, see how the new Google Groups go, and we'll
revisit the merging of the Mailing Lists again after awhile.  So, if you are
a member of the Snort Mailing Lists, and would like to sign up for the
Google Groups, feel free, as they are still separate entities.

The Groups will be handled the same as the mailing lists.  Spammers will be
banned, and their posts deleted, etc.

To sign up for the new Google Groups, you may visit this page:
http://www.snort.org/community/Groups/

Where I have placed sign-up boxes for all three of the groups.

I'd like to hear feedback on the groups.  That way I can improve what I can.
 Thanks all, and thanks to our IT and web teams for helping out on the
testing for the Google Groups and various other uncountable things they've
been able to help me with during this transition.
--
Joel Esler
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http://blog.snort.org && http://blog.clamav.net

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