# Forwarding new posts from googlegroup to Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-new-posts-from-googlegroup-to-discourse/48123
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8월 2, 2016, 3:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-new-posts-from-googlegroup-to-discourse/48123 "2016-08-02T15:10:45Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [8월 3, 2016, 9:39오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forwarding-new-posts-from-googlegroup-to-discourse/48123/5 "2016-08-03T09:39:07Z")

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We’ve been contemplating this for some time now. Initial thoughts by @sam here:

> [@MOSS Roadmap - Mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432/9):
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> One feature I would like us to work on is having Discourse act as a “web archive” for an active mailing list. This simplifies migration off mailing lists and allows us to live side by side with existing software and help many open source projects out there. For example: Say we could simply run a simple script to download all the mbox files here: [http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-general/](http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-general/) and then import into a Discourse instance. [http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-general/](http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-general/) could simply b…

The ideal scenario being:

> [@MOSS Roadmap - Mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432/9):
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> Imagine if you could just enter a single web address into your Discourse instance (pointing at mailman archives) and it took care of all of the magic for you.

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