Info-dylan@ai.mit.edu mailing list

For an overview of Dylan, you might want to peruse the Functional Objects, Inc. web site.

There is a bidirectional gateway between the info-dylan mailing list and the comp.lang.dylan newsgroup.

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Following is the "official" blurb describing the mailing list:

Info-dylan is a mailing list for the discussion of all topics related
to the Dylan programming language.  Among the topics appropriate for
this list are coding examples, coding questions, comparisons to other
languages, software announcements, calls for participation, etc.
 
Info-dylan is connected to the newsgroup comp.lang.dylan through a
two-way link.  Messages posted to the newsgroup will be forwarded to
info-dylan, and messages mailed to info-dylan will be forwarded to the
newsgroup.  Please note that there may be some time lag through this
gateway, due to net news propagation times.
 
Info-dylan is available in digest form through the mailing list
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Mail<->News Gateway

mail2news:

The target for info-dylan@ai.mit.edu calls a little Perl script, info-dylan-mail2news.pl, which throws away a few headers and then sends the message to the newsgroup via mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu, a mail2news service.

news2mail:

I have a cron job that runs another little perl script, info-dylan-news2mail.pl, every 15 minutes. The script records in a file the last article id it processed. The script connects to the news server, gets all articles numbered higher than the last-processed id, checks for "skippable", and if OK, sends the articles to the mailing list. An article is considered skippable if it looks like it originated from the mail2news gateway mentioned above.