mailing list for cross-distributions collaboration

[Greg K Nicholson]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 19:51 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Also, Freedesktop.org kindly agreed to host a mailing list to ease
> discussions between distributions, and act as a central point of
> contact.  You can subscribe on [2], and post to
> distributions at lists.freedesktop.org.
> 
> [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

Is there an equivalent newsgroup (for example at gmane.org)?
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Greg K Nicholson