[Zope] Could we migrate Zope email to a news group?

[Paul Jackson]

Mike wrote:
|> but the information here is sometimes far too critical
|> to trust to the USENET.

Not quite sure what you mean by that.  "critical" as in
"confidential" or as in "requiring urgent (quick) delivery".

If "confidential", I'm not aware of seeing confidential info
on these lists.

If "urgent", what I see on these lists is no more time critical
than what happens on other popular news groups -- take the python
news group as an example, and anyway, my experience with USENET
is that it isn't that much slower than email.

Which isn't to say that the email lists shouldn't exist, but that
they should be reduced to two flavors: a moderated announce list,
and an insiders list for a few who are highly active in Zope (and
I have concerns that this second flavor would initially weaken
the news group, by siphoning off good questions and some of the
best experts -- perhaps the "zope@zope.org" list would need to be
replaced with an autoresponder, sending all non-followups a message
inviting them to resubmit their message, to the news group).

In short:

    What's good enough for Python (comp.lang.python) is good
    enough for Zope.

    It's time Zope had a strong news group presence.

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