From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41660 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 14:47:52 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177023 7382 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12960 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:49:13 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:49:13 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16MzcL-0008RC-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:48:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:48:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA17006 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:48:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12939 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 22:48:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12934 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:48:28 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:48:28 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA97372 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:48:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g05Mlqk18822; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:47:52 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 20:36:40 +0100") Original-Lines: 56 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41660 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41660 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 > Emacs Custom > XEmacs Mule > Emacs Development > Linux Kernel > Linux USB > > 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 writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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.