>>>>> Le Jeu, 14 avr 2022 15:22:05 +0200, Adam Sjøgren
>>>>> <a...@koldfront.dk> a dit:
Durand> - Is it possible to set up an nntp server on my own
Durand> virtual personal server, and let Gnus talk to that nntp
Durand> server? I presume this is possible, but I have no
Durand> experiences in this field.
Adam> Certainly. That won't make mailing lists appear on your own
Adam> nntp server, though, so that's an extra task to set
Adam> up/figure out.
Thanks for the confirmation. I know it will contain subtleties:
setting up an email server contains a lot of subtleties as well.
Durand> - Is it possible to download the mailing list directly, as
Durand> an mbox file or any other format that the mailing list
Durand> provides, and use an ephemeral group to view the mailing
Durand> list?
Adam> Yes, if you have an mbox file, you can browse it in Gnus
Adam> e.g. by using G f in the *Group* buffer:
Thanks for the information. That is exactly what I want!
Also thanks for letting me know how to quote the documention string
inside a mail. It looks clean and beautiful. :)
Adam> [ 14 lines elided ... ]
Adam> The traditional way of reading a mailing list is subscribing
Adam> to it - then you receive a copy of every email somebody
Adam> sends to the mailing list. Emails that can be read in Gnus.
Adam> Subscribing is usually as easy as sending an email to a
Adam> special address, though sometimes you have to go through a
Adam> web form. This depends on the mailing list.
I hesitate to do this because I don't want to store the mailing list
in my mail inbox. Per chance I don't want to subscribe to the mailing
list in the future. If I subscribe to the list, then the only way
(that I know) to remove the mails from my mail inbox is to delete
them. But, what if I want to read the unsubscribed mailing list again
in the future? Re-subscribing to the list won't send me the old mails
again. So I need some way to read the entire mailing list.
Adam> Gmane is a system that subscribes to mailing lists and
Adam> exposes them via nntp. This can be very convenient, but if
Adam> the mailing lists you are interested in aren't already on
Adam> Gmane, you'll have to deal with getting them added via the
Adam> web interface.
Thanks for the information.
>>>>> Le Jeu, 14 avr 2022 21:24:33 +0800, Adam Sjøgren
>>>>> <a...@koldfront.dk> a dit:
Durand> From what I heard, the mailing lists on the gmane server
Durand> are supposed to be related to "GNU things"?
Adam> Where have you heard that? Gmane has all kinds of lists -
Adam> as long as the owner of the list doesn't mind, any mailing
Adam> list can be added.
Sorry for the uninformed saying.
Durand> Of course I am not saying that gmane should allow people
Durand> to add arbitrary mailing lists to the server; that makes
Durand> no sense.
Adam> That is literally what Gmane does.
I see.
Durand> I am just looking for some way to control what I can view
Durand> in Gnus.
Adam> How are you not in control of that?
I mean I do not have the ability to freely manipulate the contents on
the server. For example, I have to request to add some mailing lists
to the server. How am I in control of that? What if I want to
subscribe to some mailing list that I don't wish others to know that I
want to subscribe to?
Moreover, if I later don't want to subscribe to the mailing list,
could I remove the list from the gmane server?
By the way, I am kind of in doubt of how gmane works. I mean: why can
users add arbitrary mailing lists to the server? I think the server
only has a limited amout of spaces, so that the user can only add a
limited amount of mailing lists to the server? Or does gmane know
some alchemical magic to handle an unlimited amount of subscriptions
to mailing lists?
>>>>> Le Jeu, 14 avr 2022 21:55:56 +0800, Emanuel Berg via
>>>>> "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet
>>>>> newsreader (in English)" <info-gnus-english@gnu.org> a dit:
Emanuel> Indeed, since it isn't even "GNUS" anymore but Gnus which
Emanuel> I believe to be a recursive acronym meaning "Gnus Network
Emanuel> User Services".
Thanks for the information. :)
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Durand
