GMANE
Gmane is a mailing list aggregator of sorts,
that serves the mailing lists as NNTP.
Seems to work pretty well.
I did a partial and personal version of this some
time ago, making a Python program which was
simultaneously an IMAP client (which would read
your pre-filtered mailing list mail) and an NNTP
server (which would serve each mailing list mailbox
as if it were a newsgroup).
Alas, they're somewhat inaccessible at this time.
Now I can read the Python-dev mailing list in a reasonable
way. Looks like some interesting experiments going on in
the Python CVS
sandbox.
There is a start towards an
ASDL description of Python's abstract syntax (see sandbox/ast),
and a Python implementation of the Bayesian SPAM-filter recently
described by Paul Graham (see sandbox/spambayes).
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