Re: [Hampshire] GMANE integration with HantsLUG

2016-02-21 Thread Dom Rodriguez
Hi Andy, > Sorry for the late reply I've been away for 3 weeks. No worries. > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Dom Rodriguez wrote: >> I currently use GMANE (https://gmane.org) for my newsgroups at the >> moment, and found that HantsLUG (or any UK LUG mailing list for that matter, >> AFAIK) >> wasn't on t

Re: [Hampshire] GMANE integration with HantsLUG

2016-02-21 Thread paul
Hi, I did look at this. I too hadn't heard of GMANE. As Andy says, USENET and mailing lists are very different things. I would be opposed to anything that. exposed my email address to every spambot on USENET. More so if it was two-way and opened a back door for said spambots and unknow

Re: [Hampshire] GMANE integration with HantsLUG

2016-02-21 Thread Andy Random
Hi Dom, Sorry for the late reply I've been away for 3 weeks. On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Dom Rodriguez wrote: I currently use GMANE (https://gmane.org) for my newsgroups at the moment, and found that HantsLUG (or any UK LUG mailing list for that matter, AFAIK) wasn't on the server. I'd not heard

[Hampshire] Attention Mint users!

2016-02-21 Thread Andy Random
Hi, Just a heads up for anyone who uses the Linux Mint forums: All forums users should change their passwords. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3001 Also if you downloaded a copy of the Mint distribution recently: Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th! http://blo