phpwiki-talk

[Phpwiki-talk] Mailing list to news feed converter

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

I  have recently come across www.gmane.org, and find it invaluable for
helping  me  manage  the  traffic  from  a  number  a lists to which I
subscribe.

It offers the following:

1) A mailing list to news (nntp) gateway, allowing you to read mailing
lists  using  a  news  reader and treat the messages as news (eg watch
threads,  ignore  posters  etc - not that I would do that to anyone on
*this* list)

2) A useful (unlike SF/ Geocrawler), archive accessible by http, which
does not expire messages. Searching is coming soon.

3) The ability to filter spam and cross posted messages

4)  The  ability  to  post  from  anywhere, whether or not subscribed.
Measures are taken to prevent flooding/spam etc

Any thoughts about whether this list should be archived there? My vote
is yes.

Lawrence

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Mailing list to news feed converter

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

> Any thoughts about whether this list should be archived there? My vote
> is yes.

I can't think of any reasons not to.

(Is there a way to feed the archives into their system.
Not that it would do much good until they get a search
system working...)

Re[2]: [Phpwiki-talk] Mailing list to news feed converter

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 8:10:55 PM, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

>> Any thoughts about whether this list should be archived there? My vote
>> is yes.

JD> I can't think of any reasons not to.

I  agree,  given  that  the  list  has  public archives only. The only
potential  problem is that anyone can post via the news interface, but
at  the  moment  someone  (presumably our revered project manager) can
veto  subscriptions  to  the  list.  OTOH,  of course, the list is not
moderated in any event.

JD> (Is there a way to feed the archives into their system.
JD> Not that it would do much good until they get a search
JD> system working...)

Not that I know of

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Mailing list to news feed converter

[<lf...@in...>]

Lawrence Akka wrote:

> I  agree,  given  that  the  list  has  public archives only. The only
> potential  problem is that anyone can post via the news interface, but
> at  the  moment  someone  (presumably our revered project manager) can
> veto  subscriptions  to  the  list.  OTOH,  of course, the list is not
> moderated in any event.

Lyris list software allows access through email, the Web and a
"secure news interface". This means that downloading of the message archives
is public (if news client is configured with login and password) but posting
is limited to subscribers only - others get a popup dialog box asking for
login and password. Maybe someone could add this feature to Gmane.

Lawrence London
-- 
lf...@in...
http://market-farming.com

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Mailing list to news feed converter

[<lf...@in...>]

Correction:
> Lyris list software allows access through email, the Web and a
> "secure news interface". This means that downloading of the message 
> archives is public (_no login or password is required_) but 
> posting is limited to subscribers only - others get a popup dialog box asking for
> login and password. Maybe someone could add this feature to Gmane.

-- 
lf...@in...
http://market-farming.com