In order to make that work...

  1. Perlmonks would need to integrate an NNTP feed. (Not really trivial - sure, Net::NNTP makes part of it easy, but then there's deciding on how/where to store the local copies)
  2. Perlmonks would need to allow the newsgroup to cross-post back. Most sites won't cross-post to an unknown newsgroup. This kinda makes it awkward.
Further, I'm not sure that the newsgroup community would necessarily take kindly to this type of website advertising. It just feels wrong to me.

I don't think most people would complain if you posted to c.l.p.tk a message that said, "I posted a problem at http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?... and was wondering if anyone here had any idea, either. Specifically, the problem is ..." But asking someone to fire up a browser from their newsreader to participate? While I'm sure many (most?) people are willing to do so, demanding it is somewhat presumptuous, IMO. That includes both reading the problem and responding to it. Most people don't take kindly to requests to "reply via email, please" - I don't imagine that "reply via perlmonks" will be taken much better.

For example, I've posted at least three module bug reports via rt.cpan.org that referenced posts on perlmonks, but I never made the reader of the report come to PM to find out the problem - they could if they wanted to see more context, but I tried to keep each message self-contained within their existing context. I've not thought about cross-posting PM messages to newsgroups, although I have to admit that my newsgroup reader is way nicer to type in than this text area box ;-)

In reply to Re: CC'ing Comments to Newsgroup by Tanktalus
in thread CC'ing Comments to Newsgroup by rcseege

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