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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternatives to mailing list?
From: maciek.sokolewicz@gmail.com (Maciek Sokolewicz)

On 17-10-2012 20:42, Pierre Joye wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jeremiah Dodds
> <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That said, it's a little ridiculous to expect people to figure out a new
>> reader or whatever. Luckily, forums are jut a web version of
>> USENET. There are a few existing tools that take a mailing list and
>> mirror it to a web-based forum and vice-versa, and it makes a lot of
>> sense -- different frontends for the same set of data.
>
> http:.//news.php.net, which is the web frontend to view mail posts,
> nttp is supported too (did not try for a while but.. :)
>
>
NNTP works great! The only pain in the ass is that it's hellishly slow 
and very very often times out, making the reading of longer threads 
(like this one) take... ages...
Perhaps it could be mirrored / load distributed as well? Daniel?

- Tul