There is a solution since about 1984 ... it is called NNTP (Usenet News). Google Groups is basically Usenet News with a (so some people thing -- but not I -- I detest so-called web-forums) purty front end to the news reader. Gateways between mailman, bitnet, usenet, and a bunch of other stuff existed for a long time (and still do, mostly).
--- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. >-----Original Message----- >From: sqlite-users [mailto:sqlite-users- >boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Jens Alfke >Sent: Wednesday, 9 August, 2017 13:39 >To: SQLite mailing list >Subject: Re: [sqlite] Mailinglist question > > >> On Aug 9, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> >wrote: >> >> (It'd be great to have mostly-read-only public IMAP servers serving >> mailing list archives. I say mostly-read-only because one should >want >> to keep track of what one has read, responded to, flagged, and >> "deleted". But this concept appears to be a pipe dream at this >time.) > >I literally spent years exploring concepts in that vein, and almost >got a product like that built while I was at Apple ten years ago. > >The closest existing solution I’ve found is groups.io ><http://groups.io/>, which is a pretty good integration of mailing- >lists and web-forums. You can get posts as emails or in a web >interface, every email has a link to a view of the thread, and of >course you can browse and search the archives. (Yeah, it’s a lot like >Google Groups, but IMHO the functionality is better and the UI >cleaner.) > >—Jens >_______________________________________________ >sqlite-users mailing list >sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org >http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
