[ih] Internet mail in the 80's

[John Levine]

It appears that Greg Skinner via Internet-history <gregskinner0 at icloud.com> said:
>On May 21, 2026, at 11:19 PM, Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> Not connected to 3com in any way, but I have a vague recollection of a site somewhere on the net that you could post to
>Usenet using email, somehow.
>> 
>> I'm sure others have better memories than me.

It's technically so easy that I would expect most usenet sites had some sort of mail gateway.  There are also
mailing list gateways.  Usenet comp.compilers, which I moderate, is also compilers at lists.iecc.com, a mailing
list, and I run a gateway for the NTP lists to the corresponding newsgroups.

Indeed, I read this list via a gateway that sends it into a local newsgroup on my own server.
That gets me excellent message threading via my news reader, and it also expires old messages automatically.

Since I cannot leave well enough alone, I also have another gateway for IETF mailing list messages
that copies them from the IETF's IMAP server which is easier to manage than trying to subscribe and
unsubscribe to the lists I'm interested in.

R's,
John