[Mediawiki-l] Time for an email-list-to-forum bridge via Mail2Forum.com?

[Matt England]

Hello all,

I attempt to make a formal request to create a email-list-to-forum "bridge" 
using Mail2Forum ( http://mail2forum.com/ ) for the MediaWiki-l email list.

I have been using the above software to bridge many different 
GNUMailman-based email lists with phpBB web forums (on my company's 
intranet site) for some time now, and this has been immensely useful.  I 
would expect similar results for the MediaWiki-l email list.

Case in point:

I would love to be able to archive a reference to the recent 
"import-and-export-via-external-editors" thread I started, a portion of 
which is here:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-August/006455.html

...but I can't reference the entire thread, because frankly, GNUMailman's 
archive mechanism (pipermail) is rather poor.  I can't get one web-link 
reference to an entire thread, for the pipermail email archive is "all over 
the place."

This is just one of the many benefits, imho.  Additionally, phpBB posters 
have their posts copied to the email list, all with the proper References: 
header thread control, thus allowing web-forum users and email-list users 
to co-exist transparently on the same discussion content.  EMail 
Attachments are automatically inserted as web-forum attachments (if 
desired).  And more.

I can provide a few tips to setup to Brion or whoever admins this site.  I 
contribute a lot of posts to the mail2forum.com discussions as well.

What do you think?

-Matt