The aim behind GMANE is “Reading mail as if it were news is convenient. This is what Gmane offers. Mailing lists are funnelled into news groups. This isn’t a new idea; several mail-to-news gateways exist. What’s new with Gmane is that no messages are ever expired from the server, and the gateway is bidirectional. You can post to these mailing lists without being subscribed to them yourself.”
e.g. PHP PEAR on http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.php.pear.devel
