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 the

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 I'd be

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.* newsgroups

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

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 are

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

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.

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

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 them