Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 06:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET gro

Reviving Usenet Was: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Max writes: > Gnus (Emacs) should be a bit more than just text UI. Yes, of course Gnus: it's what I use. But there is no point in mentioning anything connected with Emacs when talking about enticing people away from Facebook et al even though it is actually quite easy to use these days. -- John H

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 09/07/2024 23:15, John Hasler wrote: I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. Even easier might be a browser plugin. Thunderbird supports NNTP and likely Claws as well. Gnus (Emacs) should be a bit more than just text UI. I am in doubts what you mean by "browser

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. > > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? > Others must have the same general p

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread eben
On 7/9/24 16:32, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:20:01 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. > Even easier might be a browser plugin. The Pan newsreader does the job nicely and is about as graphical as you'd want to

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread cgibbs
On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:20:01 +0200, John Hasler wrote: > I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. > Even easier might be a browser plugin. The Pan newsreader does the job nicely and is about as graphical as you'd want to get. Although I normally use slrn for Usen

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 12:30 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 07:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. This is somewhat tangential to the main question, but I find that ned

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 12:25 PM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? Others must have

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 07:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group > for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. This is somewhat tangential to the main question, but I find that nedit has everything I need. If you can't

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group > for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. > > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? > Others must have the same general problem. Did you look at https:/

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 09:06 AM, Sirius wrote: On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. I was going to suggest comp.editors, but then I recognised your name. :-

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 08:59 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde I do

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread John Hasler
Sirius writes: > Usenet is rather quiet these days, something I hope will change once > people tire of web-forums that is more preoccupied with showing you > ads than they are solving your problem. Not as long as browsers fail to support it and the myth that it cannot handle anything but plain tex

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/7/24 22:06, Sirius wrote: On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. Mailing lists, well.. You could ask Debian Project nicely if they would cr

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Sirius
On tis, 2024/07/09 at 07:55:28 GMT, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. I was going to suggest comp.editors, but then I recognised your name. :-D > In general, how does one find a s

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > When posting, I assumed a mailing list would be the more likely solution. I > just don't know how to find suitable list. Did you try the general KDE mailinglist? https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/09/2024 08:25 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someon

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-07-09, Richard Owlett wrote: > In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? For usenet you can search the active file of your server. I was using news.eternal-september.org Subscribe to some groups and see if someone respond. But usenet is almost dead nowadays :/

How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Richard Owlett
My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group for KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. In general, how does one find a suitable mailing list or USENET group? Others must have the same general problem.