In article <3730ABAC.847228F@regalint.com>, Philip Aylesworth <zopelist@regalint.com> wrote:
Indeed. I'm reading the zope.misc newsgroup in trn right now :-)
Huh?
I already run a local news<-->mail gateway for the zope (and many other) mailing lists.
I like the idea. I love dejanews. I use my-dejanews as my news reader. Everyone has access to that, right? It would be great for looking back for postings. The search engine for this list has never worked for me. I actually set up another mail account for Zope so that I could read the list when I want and archive the mail myself. News would be great (if it gets on Dejanews).
In order to be archived on Dejanews, I believe it would have to be distributed along with the rest of USENET. The problem with this is that it opens the forum up to spamming, off-topic threads, and all sorts of other junk. If there was a comp.infosystems.zope, or what have you, the volume would probably rise tenfold overnight, with most of it being completely irrelevant. I think the better approach is a semi-private "zope" hierarchy read from a specific server, much like microsoft.*, netscape.public.*, pilot.*, symantec.*, borland.*, autodesk.*, etc, etc. Many newsreaders (especially those in web browsers) can be configured for multiple servers. For those that can't (like trn), something like nntpcache (www.nntpcache.org) will do the trick.