Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2024-07-28, Michael Grant wrote: > > +1 to all you say. > > > Maybe one of you younger folks can teach me how one deals with keeping > > up with a forum like that. > > Once upon a time there was usenet. After a while there was a mail-to-news > gateway. It ease a lot coping with this change of medium. If the same > could be done with mailing lists <-> forums, perhaps the miracle would > come again :)
There is, as far as I know, exactly one system that works that way. The good news: it's open source with a Debian-acceptable license. The bad news: it's not packaged. It appears to be primarily, or solely, the effort of one person. And it only has one running instance that I'm aware of. https://forum.dlang.org/ is the discussion system for the D language. The web "forum" is a front end for Usenet. The mailing list is a gateway for Usenet. And, of course, you can access it via a Usenet server. It also generates RSS (Atom) feeds and runs an IRC channel. https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed has the source code. -dsr-
