Doing the mailinglist as Usenet is a very interesting idea. The problem is, obviously, spam. But - being able to quickly browse / hop around all the different mailing lists would be a very useful thing.
I don't think we could use NNTP to do it though unless we used it to just mirror the mails. Could we make some central mail indexing service that signed up to all the mailinglists and aggregated / displayed them all in a reasonable fashion? Something of this sort is actualy being used right now to archive this mailing lists (see the links off the hack4dean "mailinglist" page). Any other ideas? -Zack On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:10:35PM -0500, zachary rosen wrote: > > Doing the aggregation / syndication stuff as NNTP doesn't make much sense > > to me. We are creating a web app, it should use web protocols. RSS is > > perfect for this kind of things. It forces us to create the network to be > > far simpler and open than if we did it with NNTP - and that is a very good > > thing. > > The issue was mailing lists vs. web boards; you will note that I *said* > that weblogg-y stuff should be syndicated by RSS. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c >
