Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group
From: [email-masked] (Ed Huott)

23 Jan 1997 02:33:39 -0800
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In message <[email-masked]>, Shankar Unni writes:
>Carl J R Johansson said:
>
>> The ideal solution would maybe be to automatically forward the messages
>> to a local (again, as opposed to global) newsgroup and vice versa while
>> maintaining the mailing list. That should keep everyone happy, but I don't
>> know if it's practical.
>
>Certainly it's practical. A great many mailing lists are mirrored on
>newsgroups - the classic examples being the gnu mailing lists, reflected
>in the gnu.* newsgroup heirarchy. It should be a simple matter to borrow
>their framework..

This sounds like a wonderful idea.  Also, if setting up a (global or
local) newsgroup was deemed too complicated, perhaps a browsable
mailing list archive would be a good compromise.  This is, of course,
assuming Cygnus (or others) would be willing to host it.

<ED>
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