Re: add tech-talk and core-talk to gmane

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk" <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Ben,

On Apr 5, 2020, at 2:10 AM, Ben Franksen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

In case you don't know what gmane is: it is a service that converts a
public mailing list to a news portal, so that one can access the mailing
list via NNTP. For instance, git at vger.kernel.org is mirrored on
news.gmane.io as gmane.comp.version-control.git .

I was going to request tech-talk and core-talk be added there as
gmane.comp.epics.user and gmane.comp.epics.devel, respectively. But the
site warns me that I should first ask the list maintainers if they
agree, hence this email.

Are you aware that I publish a full-text RSS feed of the EPICS mailing lists as part of their archives? I’m not sure if that would be sufficient for your needs or not, but I find these feeds very useful. Links to them can be found on the main page for the list, see here for the core-talk URLs.

I don’t particularly object to your signing up the lists to gmane, but I suspect the demand would be rather low, and gmane appears to be a 1-man shop. See these two lwn.net items for some news about it. I haven’t used NNTP myself for a very long time; does gmane offer a bidirectional gateway or is it just a read-only feed?

I can also point you to the raw list-archive mbox files if gmane has a way to import them.

- Andrew

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