On 2018-05-25 14:03, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > If our mirror archive gets enough traction we'd like to make it
> > possible to sign up to the forum and seamlessly interact with the
> > mailing list,
>
> Well 'seamlessly works' would be the important part. In the past when
> this was tried(can't remember the who) the posts lagged noticeably and
> content went missing.
Also (as with any kind of message gateway) please, Please, **PLEASE**
preserve the Message-ID when crossing the boundaries. Otherwise
threading goes out of the window, despite the best efforts of those
among us who still care about it.
This is the reason why I stopped following gnu.* hierarchy (which is
joined two way with @gnu.org mailing lists by Mailman, and Mailman
violates this rule). If you do it wrong, I'll stop following this list
too.
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