James Newton, Host wrote:

>> Gmane makes possible to access PIClist using newsgroup reader.
> 
> Which is valuable for many people, but you can't reply via the newsgroup
> reader. 

Why could you not? You can do that in two ways: either through gmane.org
with a news message, or with a normal email to the piclist.

I'm doing the former for quite some time (this message is posted through
gmane.org's piclist newsgroup). You need to:
- have a valid piclist subscription
- connect to gmane.org with an identity that contains that piclist
subscription email address
- reply to gmane.org's confirmation message that it'll send you after the
first time you try to post.

Works well. You also can read the piclist through gmane.org and reply via
email. Pretty much every newsreader can send emails, so that works also. 


> At one time I had a java based news feed program that was going to
> interface to the archive to provide a newsgroup feed from piclist.com.
> Piclist.com members would then be able to post back to the list. Would that
> be desirable?

Since there is already a perfectly working email-to-news-and-back-again
gateway for the piclist, I think you should spend your valuable time
creating new things :)


> I would like to have gmails threading ability built into the archive at
> piclist.com, but I'm not sure how to implement it effeciently. 

Use gmail as your backend, so to speak? Route visitor requests to gmail
(using an account that you have set up for that and that has all piclist
messages stored), read the result gmail sends you and build a part of that
html somehow into the page that you send back to the visitor? Probably is
tricky technically and legally, though.

Gerhard

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