I'm not sure what the long list of addressees was about, but I'm not comfortable with them. Feel free to repost my message if you wish.
Phillip Hallam-Baker writes: > In the medium term, lets kill the stupidity of mailing lists with a > protocol that works. NNTP was originally designed to replace mailing > lists. GNU Mailman is thinking about this for Mailman 3. Of course we've long had a mostly functional mail-to-news bidrectional gateway, but Mailman 3 is considering adding NNTP capability directly to the bundled archiver, or perhaps a separate facility resembling an archiver as far as Mailman core is concerned.[1] I don't think this has gone anywhere yet, though. > It actually works quite well at that. The only problem was the > IT-Dictator mindset that underlies it: newsgroups have to be > approved by the Commune! Nonsense. I don't know what the problem that prevented netnews from obsoleting mailing lists is, but the alt hierarchy has always been available, and GMane proves that you can run a whole alternative NNTP network without trouble and with a reasonable amount of resources. So it's not the Cabal's fault (by the way, there is no cabal, in case you haven't heard). > I am currently using 8Gb of my primary Gmail account space, 80% of > that is my mailing list mail. Google and Yahoo could both save tens of > millions of dollars worth of hard drives a year with a better > protocol, thats incentive to invest. I suspect that's part of the reason for *groups. Regards, Footnotes: [1] Not in the core, because it doesn't have and shouldn't grow a message store beyond the in-process queues. _______________________________________________ dmarc mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc
