>> I've just discovered I can get this list as a newsgroup. I tried this >> about a year ago when I first started using Debian, but it didn't >> work, so since then I've been getting it as a mailing list. >> >> Has it always been like this, or is this a recent thing. > > It's been around for a few years, although it's never been by any means > guaranteed to be picked up by all ISPs. > > Note that posting to the newsgroup won't reflect your articles back to > the mailing list, until something has changed recently.
If you've got a decent newsreader (e.g. slrn) you can probably configure it so that when you followup to an article in muc.lists.debian.user it gets e-mailed to the right place rather than being sent to the NNTP server. I find it far more convenient to read this list via news rather than subscribing to the list. > The mailing list is the only "official" means of article distribution. A > third party runs the gateway to news. So far, it appears that the mail->news gateways is well run: I checked for a while, and I never noticed any lost messages. The developer list also has a mirror, but it seems a bit less reliable. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! An Italian is COMBING at his hair in suburban DES visi.com MOINES! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]