I still think feeding the lists to a dedicated news server could be the
cleanest approach to providing a way to read the messages by list in
a threaded manner.  Either the groups could be read-only, or (my preference,
since I'd rather not use an email interface for something like this) they
could be auto-moderated (must be able to be associated with a registered
email address), or else the server could require authentication (with one's
os.o account and password, I suppose).

That would IMO be a lot cleaner, and more scalable (even a wimpy news
server can probably handle more messages per day than the opensolaris.org
lists are ever likely to see).  And with reasonably fast clients that
can be configured to cache headers (I like knews, myself), it can be much
better performing for people with relatively slow network access (which
could be common with worldwide participation).  Or if enough folks can't
resist the temptation to post HTML, Thunderbird or Mozilla would probably
be ok too.
 
 
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