Mark Millard: > On 1/4/26 11:53, Mark Millard wrote: > > > This is a test of using gmane.os.freebsd.current from macOS > > thunderbird. Use of news.gmane.io looks to be a great > > suggestion for me.
It works! Observe, however, that your entire message is one level of quotation too deep, because you are replying to yourself, and your entire message is a quotation. I suppose it is rather a user slip than a Thunderbird bug. This should also explain why your message is an orphan (not part of a thread). I encourage to you experiment liberally in gmane.os.freebsd.test . We can try some ping-pong banter there and see how threading pans out. To ensure correct threading, take care to reply to messages from the newsgroup, rather than from your local inbox or outbox. This is not a problem, because your own messages, one successfully posted and injected, will appear in Gmane. In quotations below, the redundant level of quotation is discarded for readability: > Took me a bit to identify its use of NNTP and to track down > getting such set up in something (thunderbird). We will see if > this goes through when I send. Thunderbird is not the best newsreader out there, but once you get to grips with it, you can explore alternatives. My favourite ones are Sylpheed (e-mail and newsreader), XNews (Windows-only), tin, and slrn. When accessing a maling list from Gmane, I activate the vacation or no-delivery mode, to relieve my mailbox. With this list, this is achieved by sending an e-mail with any content and subject to: [email protected] If you are already subscribed, it will change your subscripton mode to no-delivery. > I did not notice dev-commits-src-main or > dev-commits-src-branches or dev-commits-ports-main as > available. dev-commits-src-branches is available as gmane.os.freebsd.current.scm, whereas the other two are indeed absent, but you can request new lists to be added via <https://admin.gmane.io/>. Take utmost care when filling the request form and exercise patience while the administrator processes your request. That page is also useful for searching for available mailing lists, because group names may be different.
