Raku libraries for Keras/Tensorflow, or AWS, or Kubernetes, leveraging the 
novel features of Raku, could be killer apps for Raku. Ambitious, though.

Peter Scott

> On Dec 7, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Tom Blackwood <tom.blkw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello William,
> 
> We are actually a small team making the primary job for big data/machine 
> learning etc.
> We know nothing about mailing list gateway and NNTP stuff.
> But thanks for your suggestion, I will take a took at the references you 
> provided.
> 
> Regards
> Tom
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 3:30 AM William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> My vote would be for someone to take on the task of writing
>> "mailing-list" software in Raku/Perl6, and/or writing
>> "mailing-list-archiving" software (e.g. an NNTP server) in Raku/Perl6.
>> First of all, for your group this would be a relatively-high profile
>> project, with the potential for hundreds or even thousands of
>> companies adopting such a module for their own institutional or
>> company needs.
>> 
>> Regarding the "archiving" module in particular, you could see how the
>> Perl mailing lists are archived, and easily imagine how they might be
>> improved. There would be a need to access data from a database, filter
>> out spam, organize the data by date and/or thread, and serve up the
>> data in a web-accessible format. Selfishly, I would love to see a
>> searchable archive of every Perl6/Raku email ever written.
>> 
>> I've communicated with Ask Bjorn Hansen about the Perl software
>> presently running the NNTP archive (www.nntp.perl.org), in particular
>> the Perl6-Users mailing list. Ask Bjorn Hansen says the NNTP archive
>> runs on Colobus which is written in Perl, with commits going all the
>> way back to 2001. So why not rewrite it in Raku/Perl6?? In particular,
>> I was hoping to see a better "subject threading" algorithm, since with
>> Colobus (on occasion) emails from different "eras" are lumped together
>> in the same thread (example: emails from 2010 showing up in Sept. 2019
>> threads).
>> 
>> I don't know if your group has an interest in writing a full-blown
>> NNTP server, but below are resources for Raku/Perl6, Python, and R.
>> You can decide for yourself if the Raku/Perl6 resources need
>> improving:
>> 
>> Raku/Perl6:
>> https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/
>> https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/
>> https://trainedmonkey.com/projects/colobus/
>> https://github.com/abh/colobus
>> 
>> Python:
>> https://www.python.org/community/lists/
>> https://mail.python.org/archives/
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo
>> 
>> R:
>> https://www.r-project.org/mail.html
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo
>> https://r.789695.n4.nabble.com
>> 
>> 
>> HTH, Bill.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:59 AM Tom Blackwood <tom.blkw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks, I'll check it out!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:50 PM JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Try something in the most wanted repo: 
>> >> https://github.com/perl6/perl6-most-wanted/blob/master/most-wanted/modules.md
>> >>  That way you will learn _and_ help the community.
>> >>
>> >> El vie., 6 dic. 2019 a las 8:11, Tom Blackwood (<tom.blkw...@gmail.com>) 
>> >> escribió:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello
>> >>>
>> >>> My team most time developed with ruby language.
>> >>> These recent days we took  time reading the book Learning Perl 6.
>> >>> Then we consider to take an actual project to learn more deeply.
>> >>> What project do you suggest for us to get involve into?
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>> Tom
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> JJ

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