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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>
>> Isn't this called Usenet?
>
>> If we make the mailing list archives too systematic, they might lose
>> some of the properties that differentiate them from Usenet.  Mailing
>> lists tend to appear more exclusive, and less prone to spammers and
>> trolls.  Especially if they are bi-directional, like Lars want.
>
> Hm.  I'm not sure whether security via obscurity would help here or not.

The obscurity is the only significant difference between Usenet groups
and mailing lists as far as I can see.

>> A vaguelly heard rumors of the gnu.* hiearchy being revitalized.  If
>> that is the case, maybe Lars should ask for the ding list being
>> gatewayed as gnu.emacs.gnus.development.
>
> Yes, I'm working on that revitalization, in fact.  Currently, I'm stuck on
> trying to figure out how to generate the correct PGP keys that I need; I
> should get back to working on that.  The software is pretty much all
> written to generate control messages, which is the first major step.  Then
> we just have to write a whole bunch of documentation.

Sounds excellent!