Harald Welte <lafo...@osmocom.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 08:50:48PM +0200, Geza Giedke wrote: >> I know that I'm old-fashioned in this respect, but I think for online >> discussions no better system than Usenet has been invented, but mailing >> lists are the next best options. > > Full ACK. > >> Is there any software that could provide a (bidirectional) interface between >> a webforum and a mailinglist?
There are some, but they are typically broken in some regard or another. For instance, a Drupal module used by https://trisquel.info, among numerous minor issues, tries to parse text/plain mail as HTML source, so anything between ‘<’ and ‘>’ is eaten, fails to preserve attachments (in either direction). > There was the software used at gmane.org, which for many years provided not > only a web archive to mailing lists, but also NNTP access. In fact, I believe > their custom NNTP ssrver was actually the main storage backend. > > Unfortunately when gmane.org went down it never really recovered Actually, no, gmane.org is alive. Lars decided to cease HTTP access — mostly due to legal issues (and in a view of much more oppressive laws like GDPR adopted since then, it’s unlikely that he would change his mind), but NNTP interface is still there, requests to add new m/l for archiving are still accepted too.
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