Miles Fidelman wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 10/10/2014 10:01 AM, softwatt wrote:
On 10/10/2014 02:27 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
I also read this
mail list via NNTP (easier to keep track of threads)
This is perfect for me. But information on the net is scarce and I
don't
know where to begin. I know that I can access linux.debian.* and read
stuff, but that would require a -often paid- Usenet account.
Is there an open readonly server specifically for Debian? Mozilla does
this (news.mozilla.org)
According to: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists
There are 4 ways to read the list:
- Email when subscribed to the list.
- A Web browser viewing the archives, which are public.
- Usenet with Network News (Transfer|Transport) Protocol, NNTP.
- The mail-to-news gateways linux.debian.*
I guess my question is how to do the third one.
Thanks in advance.
You don't need to use a paid server. There are plenty of free ones
available. Personally, I use eternal-september.com. It's been pretty
solid for me and contains all of the newsgroups I want. No binary
newsgroups, but I can life with that.
You can't post to Debian from there (because it's just a mirror of the
mailing list), but you can post to real newsgroups.
Note that a lot of list-to-usenet gateway software can be
bi-directional, depending on administrative settings.
As someone pointed out, debian-user is gatewayed to gmane - which, in
turn, EXPOSES AN NNTP FEED.
Point your newsreader at nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user
If this gets to the list, then one can post through it as well.
Looks like this DID get to the list - so you can read and post through
gmane's USENET i/f. But... it looks like gmane actually posts via
email, not nntp - and the first time you do so, it sends you an email to
confirm your email address. As far as users are concerned, it doesn't
matter - it all just works -- and, I think, it seems to satisfy a lot of
what the OP was asking for.
Meanwhile, it's not at all clear whether the list-nntp gateway is
bi-directional or not - there's not a lot to be found via google, and
all of what I find is pretty ancient.
I'll ask around a bit and report back what I find.
Miles Fidelman
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