Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-28 Thread Steven Maddox (Architect)
Yey! I am using Gmane (this is a test to see if I can post) Woo! Sincerely... Steven Maddox (Architect) Function Office http://www.functionoffice.com David Claughton wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: It's been observed that linux.debian.user doesn't send mail2news posts back to the list on a con

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian-User is not in any way shape or form, moderated. Well, I take back my words. Apologies for the wrong information. But to be a little fair to myself, I was mislead by a KNode (KDE's news reader, integrated into Kontact) pop message when

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:53 -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 4/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > > > Lo folks, > [snip] > > > > > > So I discover the list.debian.user group on usenet - yey! However...

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
P Kapat writes: > ...this is a moderated list... No. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread David Claughton
to Mail or NNTP, you could look at Nabble.com, which makes mailing lists look like web-based forums. I just registered for an account myself :-) Cheers, David. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mailing-List-vs-Newsgroup-tf3654740.html#a10217659 Sent from the Debian User

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Lo folks, > > Been using the mailing list for this (and also the Zinf, FreeDOS and > FreeNX mailing lists) for a little while now. You have to go through > the rigmarole of confirming your email a

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
P Kapat wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > You can certainly mail, but since this is a moderated list, your mail > will wait for a manual green flag from the moderator. As a consequence > what happens is the mail ends up a few days late. Where'd you get the

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo folks, [snip] > > So I discover the list.debian.user group on usenet - yey! However... > can I remove myself from the mailing list and still post here us

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And of course we never look > down on anyone... ;^) What? No one uses google earth? Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo folks, > > Been using the mailing list for this (and also the Zinf, FreeDOS and > FreeNX mailing lists) for a little while now. You have to go through > the rigmarole of confirming your email address and such etc et

Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread Steven Maddox (Architect)
Lo folks, Been using the mailing list for this (and also the Zinf, FreeDOS and FreeNX mailing lists) for a little while now. You have to go through the rigmarole of confirming your email address and such etc etc.. However mailing lists are a pain as even tho I've got my thunderbird to put t

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread Mike Horansky
(Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > > good). > > Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? [...] >> The newsgroup was almost dead in my end, until a week ago. It does >> not seem to be up to date though. > >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists to >

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > good). Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but I'd be surprised. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 07:28 PM 27/04/97 -0700, mike horansky wrote: >My take on this is completely different. Using Usenet instead of a >mailing list is more efficient in terms of disk usage and probably cpu >load as well (the sysadmins here tell me that our mail servers have >much higher load spikes now that people

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread George Bonser
FWIW, the debian lists just started showing up again on my news server from someplace in France. I rather LIKE using them in Unsenet format rather than mailing list format only because my mailbox gets enough clutter. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread mike horansky
Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists > >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't > >find the message here anywhere. > > > >I suppose we could create our own debian.*

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't >find the message here anywhere. > >I suppose we could create our own debian.* newsgroups -- but I prefer >getting

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Jim Pick
> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? > > I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in > both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. > > I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't > really recall what the

debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Stefan Eriksson
Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't really recall what the message said.