On Thu, 6 May 1999, Martijn Pieters wrote:
I think I could live with a NNTP solution, provided it is a _three_-way solution: mail/news/web. I have build such systems, based upon Perl, majordomo, Netscape News Server and MHonArc (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html). Sorry about the Perl, I am a multi-linguist.
Actually, there already is such a thing, and Digicool is alredy using it! The MailMan list software has web archiving and a newsgroup gateway build in!
Advantages: Occasional users can turn to their news reader and scan the headlines, and selectively download messages.
Zope gurus can opt to see all messages by subscribing to the list. And I can search the list using my email client in much better ways than DejaNews ever lets me.. (Eudora 4.2 beta can do boolean and regexp finds!). It allows for very personalized handling of the information.
The web interface can provide an archive, with reliability (more so than email!), searchability (especially if the news-group is not part of USENET), and the right look and feel. Also, having a URL to point to is a great boon when discussing recurring topics.
"Agreed. " * 3 -The Dragon De Monsyne