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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>  * There really needs to be some sort of
>    central, organized hierarchy for gating mailing lists, 

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.  

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.