[Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2012 - NNTP archive access

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 27, 2012, at 09:09 PM, Alexander Sulfrian wrote:

>What are the next steps you would propose. I unfortunately not up to
>date with the development of mailman 3. But I am a little bit familiar
>with the mailman 2 source code.

MM3 will be a better platform to build something like the NNTP access on.  The
question in my mind is whether this should be done as part of the various
independent (but related) archiver projects, or whether it should be done as a
separate "archiver".

In mm3, there's an API for feeding posted messages to an IArchiver, but this
is quite flexible.  I could imagine that something on the other end of this
vended messages via NNTP instead of HTTP.  The one key difference is that
you'd like to be able to post to the mailing list through NNTP, with probably
some additional posting rules (e.g. if you're not a member, but we "know" you,
or you've been approved for posting a few times, your message wouldn't get
held for moderator approval).

If I was doing this, I'd probably looks seriously at Twisted as the basis for
implementing the NNTP side of things.  I haven't looked in quite a while, but
at the time, it had great support for NNTP server-side.

Cheers,
-Barry
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