People point to message-IDs all the time - in fact, every Usenet reply contains one or more (unless really broken software is being used). I wasn't suggesting pointing to web-based archives directly. (Although, given a message-ID, using a web-based archive to retrieve the message is a possibility).

I don't believe my approach is going to work though - but that's because I don't believe the OP's suggestion was going to work either. I only put up my suggestion so people would say "Why should I go to Usenet to answer a question?". I don't believe a significant number of people on Usenet would go elsewhere to answer a question.

People tend to pick zero, one or more forums to communicate. Many people on Perlmonks have expressed they will never go (or return) to Usenet. Many people on Usenet hate web based forums. There are Perl people that participate on Usenet groups that don't like Perlmonks. On the other hand, there are many people who already participate both on Perlmonks, and on Usenet.

So, who's going to benefit from any cross-forum scheme? Not the people participating on both forums already. It will certainly piss-off people who don't want to participate in the other forum.

I don't think it will work. Perlmonks isn't Usenet - if it was, there wouldn't be a point of having Perlmonks.

The only think that might work is if you create a decicated newsgroup, for instance, alt.perl.monk with the specific purpose of creating cross-forum traffic. Kind of similar to the NNTP-to-mailinglist gateways. But that's different from injecting Perlmonks postings into an existing newsgroup.

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In reply to Re^2: CC'ing Comments to Newsgroup by Perl Mouse
in thread CC'ing Comments to Newsgroup by rcseege

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