I'll even qualify that as saying I LOVE it much better AS a
newsgroup. I have a private newsgroup on my news server that
I automaticly post all the inbound email from the list too.
It keeps my mailbox from getting clutterd.
It provides a way to have threaded topics.
Storing 14 days of email isn't then a problem, and very helpfull
as a resource.
It wouldn't be neccesary to have it as a 'public' news group, but
it could be manages a couple of ways 'privately'.
1) a private feed to subscribed sites, they would be required
not not redistribute the group to other outbound feeds from
there site, and to restrict access to the group from the
general public.
2) for sites that don't maintain a news server that they can
easely do this with you can have a remote news server that
these people could request privlaged access to the server for
the sole perpose of reading this newsgroup.
3) an email-to-news gateway could be maintained for the few that
have no access to news at all(if there are any).
Another advantage would be that livingston could then have several
newgroups, that breakout topics, like one for just announcements
and what not.
Just my two cents worth, and I'd be willing to back this up with an
offer to use my news servers for this, and even help others to
configure there news servers.
Jim McKenzie
mcs@isp.net