On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:33, nate wrote: > Kai Olsen said: > > Hi all. > > > Why on earth (to stay local) doesn't Debian move the lists to a > > newsserver instead ???? > > i'll reply anyways. > > not every ISP has a news server, running a news server is very bandwidth > intensive and disk space intensive. I personally prefer mailing lists over > usenet anyday. Now I personally have no problem with a mail:news gateway > where people can use either method to communicate, I just perfer mailing > lists. > > debian-user is a relativly high traffic list..at least it has a good > ratio of good:crap(e.g. spam) mails, unlike many newsgroups .. > > I'd be interested in hearing if any other distributions use usenet > for user support. I have used SuSE, and FreeBSD's mailing lists ... > > if you don't like it, looks like you've gone away, you won't be missed! > > nate > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
I'd add that linux.debian.user and muc.lists.debian.user are mail:news gateways, although I know that linux.debian.user is supposed to be a one way gateway - the mailing list showing on the newsgroup and no posts on the newsgroup (although that is misconfigured on a good number of servers, including big ones like SuperNews, and some posts appear there even though the newsgroups were supposed to be read-only - they do not cross back to the mailing list.) It is through those newsgroups that I first became familiar with this mailing list. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
