On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:08:22AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
> as some of you may be aware, many (most?) of the mailing lists are also
> gatewayed (bidirectionally, AFAIK) into newsgroups on nntp.perl.org.
>
> What do you think of doing the same for london-list? (Or has that already
> happened, perhaps?) I don't know whether the list has to go through perl.org
> for the gatewaying to be possible or whether it's enough to subscribe some
> bot or other to the list.
>
> Some people prefer newsreaders to mail clients, especially for social lists
> with long forking threads and high-ish volume. (It won't affect me, since I
> read london-list at work and our firewall doesn't allow NNTP <spit>, but I
> still thought I'd put up the idea for discussion.)
We were thinking about doing this internally, but the one question that
popped into my head was: does this list allow postings by
non-subscribers? That seemed to be the chief block.
-Dom
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