Uwe Brauer wrote:
Sorry if that message has been already sent, but I can't see it in the gmane interface.
Hello
I apologise if this question has already has been asked or is elementary, but is there any possibility that the discussion, the talks about a specific topic could be mirrored in a mailing list or newsgroup? For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sumer
Talk pages are considered as one block of text and nothing in the database store them as separate messages. Any new modification can add several replies and even modify an existing message. Looks a bit hard to implement that actually (need parsing, ability to changes previous messages in nntp / cancel messages etc..).
It seems that I can contribute to that discussion, after having logged in, but I would prefer a more familiar interface such as the emacs editor. If such discussions were mirrored in a mailing list, I could use that editor for this purpose.
In preferences: "Editing" > check "Use external editor by default" , will send you the file for editing in whatever editor. Not sure how it works exactly though ;)
Now I see for example the daily-article mailing list which is mirrored in gmane as gmane.org:gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia but there seems no response posted.
The daily-article group in gmane is just a moderated mailing list where emails are sent by one person. So it is in no way an automatic feature of MediaWiki :p