Re: Mailing lists and news archiving

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm going through old mail, and mailing lists I'm subscribed to, but
> haven't read in a while.  And I'm struck by how much of our collective
> knowledge is on these mailing lists, and how ephemeral they are.  Some
> of them are archived here and there, but the archives go away or move
> or don't work.
>
> News, on the other hand, don't really go away if you don't run
> expiry.  If more people are interested mirroring, you just start
> feeding.  Or mirror using other means.
>
> So I'm wondering whether I should start setting up mail-to-news
> gateways for all the mailing lists I'm subscribed to.  And, of course,
> any other mailing lists that people would want me to store.
>
> Does this seem like an OK idea?
>
> The mailing lists I would gateway would be, at least:
>
> XEmacs Beta <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
> Emacs Custom <emacs-custom@sunsite.dk>
> XEmacs Mule <xemacs-mule@xemacs.org>
> Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Linux USB <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> Is this a good idea?  A bad idea?  And what would the hierarchy be
> called? 

[...]

Its a good idea... My server doesn't carry all that many and its a
sort of commercial big time operator sort of. (Newsguy.com).

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> So I'm wondering whether I should start setting up mail-to-news
>> gateways for all the mailing lists I'm subscribed to. 
>
> I've just browsed my ISP's news server, and there are oodles and
> oodles of gatewayed mailing lists there.  Makes me wonder why anybody
> subscribes to mailing lists.  :-)

So are you still considering it, or are there already many of them
available?

You asked about hierarchy:.. The way freebsd does it is like:

mailing.freebsd.questions
mailing.freebsd.stable
etc

So maybe there is a sort of defacto `mailing' hierarchy.