Subscribe gmane to this list?

[Ben Rubinstein]

I've recently come across Gmane, an interesting service that attempts to
make mailing lists more usefully accessible.

It gives a variety of nice interfaces to the list, including two web
variants (both of them to my taste substantially better than Mailman
provides), news reader, and RSS; and search functionality that constitutes a
definite improvement over using google with site.

For an example, see
    http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.culture.cars.volkswagen.diesel

It also potentially allows posting through the web interface, which I
personally would find helpful.

More information here:
    http://gmane.org/about.php
    http://gmane.org/faq.php
    http://gmane.org/features.php

I'd propose that this list would be subscribed with posting allowed for list
members only, and with email addresses encrypted.

Downsides to doing this:
    - the list is fractionally more public than it is now.  Postings to this
list are already archived, and discoverable via Google; but now there will
be two sites on which such postings may be found; and the list itself will
now be in another index, in addition to the one in which it can be found
from the runrev site.  So I don't think that is very significant.
    - er?

Upsides:
    - no change to anything existing
    - no additional effort from RunRev
    - several valuable new interfaces
    - (tiny) additional exposure for Revolution (there are a preponderance
of developer related lists on the service, and you can search across them)

If this list wasn't already archived on a publicly accessible web site, then
I'd think twice.  But as it is, I can't see any real downside to doing this.
But of course, I wouldn't want to do it if the list, or RunRev, would prefer
not.

Comments?
 
  Ben Rubinstein               |  Email: benr_mc at cogapp.com
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