Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
Let's do it and could someone supply us with a link/info resource to learn more about how to use gmane effectively. thanks in advance. Tony Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the unconventional quoting, but, basically: 'What the man says' :-) gmane really is the ideal way to read 'lists': it doesn't clutter up your mail account and it's infinitely less hassle than an online web forum, it's exactly what netnews was made for. On 30 Mar 2003 17:31:18 +0100 Will Partain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the benefit to ME again? You, or anyone who reads the list via e-mail, will notice *no change whatsoever*. Those of us who like, nay adore, gmane will read the list that way. (What do I like? -- I have been able to ditch almost all of my personal mailing-list subscriptions and the headache of managing them; all gmane lists get put through spamassassin, so I don't have to set it up everywhere I get mailing-list mail; the lists are all archived and searchable without any effort on my part; instead of just wondering if there's a mailing list about a subject, I just look through the gmane lists and I'm done; I can usually post, if I want to; ... ) And if it all goes pear-shaped, and the gmane-fication somehow mysteriously causes problems for this list, I *guarantee* you that Lars will make the changes we want, including de-gmane-ing the list. There is such a thing as a free lunch. Will ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- David Marsh, Glasgow, Scotland, N Europe. | http://web.viewport.co.uk/ email valid @time of writing, but reply to list preferred, thanks. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
Ive been meaning to get off the fence on this for some time. Ive had a good look at the gmane site and cannot find any reason not to give this a try. I proppose a months trial of the gmane facility and if we have any problems during that time, we can easily back out. Expect the gmane facility to be up in the next couple of days. Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
Tony Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the benefit to ME again? You, or anyone who reads the list via e-mail, will notice *no change whatsoever*. Those of us who like, nay adore, gmane will read the list that way. (What do I like? -- I have been able to ditch almost all of my personal mailing-list subscriptions and the headache of managing them; all gmane lists get put through spamassassin, so I don't have to set it up everywhere I get mailing-list mail; the lists are all archived and searchable without any effort on my part; instead of just wondering if there's a mailing list about a subject, I just look through the gmane lists and I'm done; I can usually post, if I want to; ... ) And if it all goes pear-shaped, and the gmane-fication somehow mysteriously causes problems for this list, I *guarantee* you that Lars will make the changes we want, including de-gmane-ing the list. There is such a thing as a free lunch. Will ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
Why are we wanting to change for change sake. The mailing list has served us well for four years. I vote for the status quo. If it's not broken don't fix it. Tony Dyer In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Marsh's list-reading hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Just wondering if a consensus had been reached as regards making this list available via the extremely useful gmane http://www.gmane.org/ news-list gateway? The discussion we had (a few days ago) seemed to have a few voices in favour, a few voices with understandable concerns (which I think we addressed?) but nobody actually against the idea. Can we go with this, then? David. -- Copyright 2003 by W. N. Dyer; all rights reserved. Tony Dyer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dyer.demon.co.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
I thought that more was less and less was more. What's the benefit to ME again? I have one way that works why do I need another? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Graeme Mathieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Tony == Tony Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Using gmane ] Tony Why are we wanting to change for change sake. It isn't really a change; it's just an additional way of accessing the list. -- Copyright 2003 by W. N. Dyer; all rights reserved. Tony Dyer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.dyer.demon.co.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway?
Title: RE: [Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane news gateway? * This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. * *** The thing with news (which has come as a shock to me, but then I'm prehistoric in web [sic] terms ;-)) is that generally only oldtimers and geeks do news (in the traditional usenet sense). Newbies (admittedly, we're probably not talking about Linux users here!) have enough trouble getting to grips with email, that news is just a completely alien planet to them.. ;-( On another mailing list, an adjunct to an alt. newsgroup (a clean one though, well, ish) the same conclusion has come to us which is why we're talking about building a web interface to a news server to allow people to participate by both web and trad news reader. News does seem to be the preserve these days of techheads, geeks, oldbies and the occasional binary downloader cds
