From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41768 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:06:59 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177114 7863 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:11:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21558 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 03:11:36 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2002 03:11:36 -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 16O95F-0007Vz-00; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:07:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:07:12 -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 VAA13338 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:07:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21497 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2002 03:07:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21492 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 03:07:05 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 9 Jan 2002 03:07:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28148 invoked by uid 50); 9 Jan 2002 03:06:59 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Per Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:52:10 +0100") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41768 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41768 Per Abrahamsen 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. > 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. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)