Re: Switching to Discourse

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 12:19 AM Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm actually reading python-dev, c.l.py etc. through Gmane, and have done
> that ever since I joined. Simply because it's a mailing list of which I
> don't need a local (content) copy, and wouldn't want one. Gmane seems to
> have a complete archive that's searchable, regardless of "when I subscribed".

+1

> It's really sad that Discourse lacks an NNTP interface. There's an
> unmaintained bridge to NNTP servers [1], but not an emulating interface
> that would serve the available discussions via NNTP messages, so that users
> can get them into their NNTP/Mail clients to read them in proper discussion
> threads. I think adding that next to the existing web interface would serve
> everyone's needs just perfectly.

Perhaps the possible mirroring-to-mailman that Steve (Turnbull)
mentioned would be enough to facilitate a continuity for NNTP?

-eric