For people who want to read the debian mailing lists as a newgroup because of conevenience of using the client (as opposed to bandwidth concerns), it is pretty easy to set up a local news-server to do this.
Just get the inn package and the newsgate package. Configure inn and add a group for each mailing list. Then, add something similar to this in your .procmailrc: # Mail for debian-devel-changes :0 w * ^From.*debian-devel-changes | mail2news -nfoo.debian-devel-changes -S # Mail for debian-devel :0 w * ^From.*debian-devel | mail2news -nfoo.debian-devel -S # Mail for debian-mentors :0 w * ^From.*debian-mentors | mail2news -nfoo.debian-mentors -S # etc, etc.... I am experimenting with this currently. Although mutt has great support for newsgroups, there are some things I like better about slrn. I also like that the news server keeps all the messages archived for me without me having to hassle with it in the mailing list mailboxes. Note that this is a one-way newsgroup (read-only), but you can set it up so that postings to the group are forwarded to the mailing list. -Mitch
