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[Aahz Maruch]

In article <20000707140442.B4771 at kronos.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Andrew Kuchling  <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>
>Beats me.  Hmm... here's a possibility: what if python-dev was
>gatewayed to a moderated newsgroup comp.lang.python.core-devel?
>Messages posted to the group via Usenet would just be bounced back to
>the poster, so there's no moderator approving messages, and python-dev
>would continue to be invitation-only.  Essentially the newsgroup would
>be a read-only view of the python-dev mailing list.
>
>Would that be possible?  Is there a Usenet precedent for this sort of
>setup?

It's certainly possible.  I'm not sure whether there's precedent for
this specific setup.  I can probably say that there'd be a fair amount
of pushback from news.groupies, including me, unless you can clearly
articulate why such a newsgroup would be useful.

Note that it should be simple to set up public read-only subscriptions
to python-dev; if it isn't simple, that's a bug in Mailman.  ;-)
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