Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-28 Thread Steven Maddox (Architect)
Yey! I am using Gmane (this is a test to see if I can post) Woo! Sincerely... Steven Maddox (Architect) Function Office http://www.functionoffice.com David Claughton wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: It's been observed that linux.debian.user doesn't send mail2news posts back to the list on a con

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian-User is not in any way shape or form, moderated. Well, I take back my words. Apologies for the wrong information. But to be a little fair to myself, I was mislead by a KNode (KDE's news reader, integrated into Kontact) pop message when

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 23:53 -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 4/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > > > Lo folks, > [snip] > > > > > > So I discover the list.debian.user group on usenet - yey! However...

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
P Kapat writes: > ...this is a moderated list... No. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread David Claughton
Paul Johnson wrote: > > > It's been observed that linux.debian.user doesn't send mail2news posts > back > to the list on a consistant basis. You may have better results with > gmane.linux.debian.user on news.gmane.org instead. > > As another alternative to Mail or NNTP, you could look at Na

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Lo folks, > > Been using the mailing list for this (and also the Zinf, FreeDOS and > FreeNX mailing lists) for a little while now. You have to go through > the rigmarole of confirming your email a

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
P Kapat wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > You can certainly mail, but since this is a moderated list, your mail > will wait for a manual green flag from the moderator. As a consequence > what happens is the mail ends up a few days late. Where'd you get the

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo folks, [snip] > > So I discover the list.debian.user group on usenet - yey! However... > can I remove myself from the mailing list and still post here us

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And of course we never look > down on anyone... ;^) What? No one uses google earth? Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:34:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo folks, > > Been using the mailing list for this (and also the Zinf, FreeDOS and > FreeNX mailing lists) for a little while now. You have to go through > the rigmarole of confirming your email address and such etc et