[Biopython] suggestion: moving to the discussion list to Google groups

[Peter]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I do take you point that making the mailing list more
> accessible to novices (especially university students) is a
> good idea - and you may be right that *mirroring* it on
> GoogleGroups could be a solution. I don't know enough
> about how that works to have an informed viewpoint, but
> I trust Hilmar to look into it.
>

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Leighton Pritchard <lpritc at scri.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> +1 for mirroring/archiving on Google Groups:
> http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46387
>

It looks like we can see mirroring/archiving on Google Groups in action -
Hilmar and Chris have got this up and running for the main BioPerl list,

http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-December/031789.html
http://groups.google.com/group/bioperl-l

It is a shame there isn't any obvious way to import the existing archive
though.

Peter