On 8/25/06, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Take a look if Google Groups works exactly the way you want.
>
we'd want to use something that integrates with our website - if we are
going to have forums. Would google groups do that ?
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
I bet it doesn't (yet), unfortunately.
They have indexed some of the usenet and one is able to subscribe to a group (or usenet "channel") and choose to receive messages by email or just read it on google group's website like a forum (and write/follow-up from there).
There is one interesting feature, though. One can make a "group" and tell Google to index an already existing mailing list, then Google gives you an email (like group-98123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and then you register this email address as a normal user of the existing mailing list, and from then on every email of the list gets archived and usable on the Google Group. At the same time, people may subscribe to the list through GG and use it freely to send and receive email, like a new mailing list or like a forum. The two mailing lists (the old one and the new one) gets synched. Don't ask me HOW google does send message from it's group to the old mailing list - if the "from" address if the same group-98123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as it is registered there, or if it uses some trick to put the user's real email address. =) There must be some way to send all the "old" emails from the original mailing list to the Group email (like group-98123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), in order to migrate the entire list.
But if this not indeed what Centos mantainers want, forgive my off-topic =) Just hope this become useful for somebody here.
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Vilela
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