Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-11 Thread s. keeling
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Darko wrote: > > > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > > mailing list > > debian-user mailing list can be accessed as a news group. You can

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Nov 10, 10:30 am, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darko wrote: > > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > > mailing list > > debian-user mailing list can be accessed as a

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-11 Thread Paul Csanyi
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:48:50 +0100 keltezéssel Pál Csányi azt írta: > 2007/11/10, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 11/10/2007 03:22 PM, Pál Csányi wrote: >> > 2007/11/10, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> >> Using linux.debian.user is possible only if you have access to a news >

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-11 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/10, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/10/2007 03:22 PM, Pál Csányi wrote: > > 2007/11/10, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Using linux.debian.user is possible only if you have access to a news > >> server. For me that is not the case. So I use the free http://gmane.

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/10/2007 03:22 PM, Pál Csányi wrote: > 2007/11/10, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Using linux.debian.user is possible only if you have access to a news >> server. For me that is not the case. So I use the free http://gmane.org 's >> server using which almost all the debian ma

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/10/07, Darko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > mailing list Look at linux.debian.user or news.gmane.org -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/10, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Using linux.debian.user is possible only if you have access to a news > server. For me that is not the case. So I use the free http://gmane.org 's > server using which almost all the debian mailing lists can be read as news > groups. I try

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Darko wrote: > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > mailing list debian-user mailing list can be accessed as a news group. You can read/post on this news group just like debian-user mailing

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/10/2007 12:02 PM, Darko wrote: > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > mailing list > debian-user is available on several newsgroups. I read this on gmane.org, newsgroup gmane.linux.de

Re: Newsgroup

2007-11-10 Thread Thilo Six
Darko wrote the following on 10.11.2007 18:02 > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's > mailing list you mean s.th. like: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user ? bye -- Thilo key:

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:09:31 -0500, Scott C. Linnenbringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > --Signature=_Mon__29_Sep_2003_20_09_31_-0500_pe/V4DcYATcxTKe7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500, "debian.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I'm having trouble posting a question to the lists. I tried to do it > via the newsgroup, dosent' appear. I used my subscribed address. Can > one post via the newsgroup? What settings are required? > > I

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-29 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: > > | Can one post via the newsgroup? > > Nope. It's a one-way gateway. Posts via the newsgroup only show up > in the newsgroup, or so I've been told. The rest of us use the > mailling list (SMTP; aka ema

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:44:25 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: > >|

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:29:07AM -0500, debian.1 wrote: | Can one post via the newsgroup? Nope. It's a one-way gateway. Posts via the newsgroup only show up in the newsgroup, or so I've been told. The rest of us use the mailling list (SMTP; aka email). (btw, subscription doesn't matter) -D

Re: Newsgroup usage question

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:29:07 -0500, debian.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_00BE_01C385AB.592B7D30 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello: > > I'm having

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-05 Thread irvine
Thankyou to all who responded. Seems to be no consensus - which ain't a bad thing BTW. I suppose that all that remains for me to do is to fire up apt-get and start trying out the newsreaders. Thanks again. t.irvine -- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:51:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looki

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020902 10:56]: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. If you're familiar and co

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. > > I here that gnus is very powerfu

Re: newsgroup readers

2002-09-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:51:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. slrn is a text

Re: Newsgroup / mailing list (was: Upgrade Kernel to 2.4 or later)

2001-10-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 19 Oct 2001, Jens Müller wrote: > This is not a real newsgroup, it is a mirrored mailing list. Please > send your posts and replies to debian-user@lists.debian.org, otherwise > they won't reach those who are not reading the list via this > particular newsgroup. What would be handy is if someon

Re: Newsgroup & Pine

1998-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 03:01:17PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi all, > How do I set up a newsgroup in pine?? > > I put in the proper news server name. when I subscribe the > newsgroup, it says I don't have the permission!! > > Could anyone help?? > > Thx > Shao. Some

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Rev" == Rev Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rev> [1 ] Rev> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a George> newsreader than it is a mail reader. >> >> Yes. I agree. What does this have

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
> The best solution is a unified mail/news reader application ofcourse > that can let you read mailing lists as newsgroups. Only emacs (with GNUs) > can do that now AFAIK and I do not want to learn emacs.. have you ever looked at mutt? pgpnlxg0Jihrj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Of course newsgroups are fine provided you have access to a good news feed. The one I have access to is rather unreliable. It seems that many messages simply don't get through, and there are often periods when news groups have no messages at all in them for a day or two. (Not that I have tried

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a > George> newsreader than it is a mail reader. > > Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though? > Why *don't* people just read mailing list

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread d1temp
> SL> Uhm, I beg to differ. On a newsgroup with moderate traffic (50-60 > SL> messages/day) the amount of data transfered to read what I want to > SL> read is less than if it were a mailing list. The difference is, a > SL> mailing list, all message bodies are transfered. With a newsgroup > SL

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> Uhm, I beg to differ. On a newsgroup with moderate traffic (50-60 SL> messages/day) the amount of data transfered to read what I want to SL> read is less than if it were a mailing list. The difference is, a SL> mailing list, all message b

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
> new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better > than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs > with gnus. I used to run gnus on a 486 with 8MB, so I can sympathize. And it's understandable for those you just don't like emacs. I hav

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 23 May 1998 12:05:09 +0200 (CEST), Orn E. Hansen wrote: > The problem with news servers, and reading threads like this one there, is >for the home user. If you have a 28.8 link, or 14.4 link, and start reading >the news, you will be downloading a far greater amount than if you just >subs

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 23-May-98 skrifar Ed Cogburn: > > I have to agree here. Remember, this mailing list is being used by > people > new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better > than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs > with gnus. Th

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 07:21:24PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > I have to agree here. Remember, this mailing list is being used by people > new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better > than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emac

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rick
personall i prefere the mailing list, i dont read news grps very often, and what a few mins on the phone ?? Rick -Original Message- From: Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: 22 May 1998 04:16 Subject: newsgroup, instead of mail list? >Given the vol

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > Think of a mailing list to Unsenet as a "resource multiplier". If one > single email is read by hundreds or thousands of people, the mail servers > at both ends are given a break, only one copy needs to exist on the news > server for many to read it, the message auto-expir

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread The Gecko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>"Gregory" == Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gregory> Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > Gregory> newsgroup more convenient. Maybe for some, but I avoid news groups. I don't have the time it takes to fire

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Gregory" == Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gregory> Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a Gregory> newsgroup more convenient. I think a newsgroup has nothing to do with this. What it does have to do with is your choice of software. I ha

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 13:29:36 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: >I also never use a forged address but I have Exim with a rather impressive >list of sites, domain names, networks, and individuals that may not send >me email that I have built up over time. I get maybe a half-dozen spams >a week.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a George> newsreader than it is a mail reader. Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though? Why *don't* people just read mailing lists with news r

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "RJC" == Rev Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RJC> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. >> >> Get some real filters in place, then. RJC> Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p b

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 19:32:52 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >> Get some real filters in place, then. >Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters >because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters. I get 1 per month that slip by my filters... if that.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. > > Get some real filters in place, then. Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 22 May 1998 19:12:46 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. Get some real filters in place, then. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's.

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that > way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want > posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-) I don't want news posts gateway'd back

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > newsgroup more convenient. > > 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Mutt does this with mail. > 2) the linear, header and

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
> "MvS" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MvS> Gating mail to news is NOT a good idea. Why? Because a lot of people MvS> do it. But it does work well, if it is centralised. de.alt.comm.isdn4linux is a (both-sided) gateway to a mailinglist. For me, it doesn't matter (I u

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
>I don't know about you folks, but my newserver (news.vt.edu) has the >group, but I've never seen a single message in it > >Am I broken? > -- Mine has 6 messages total; I get 10x that each day in the mail list! Situation? Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader. As a matter of fact, there >is more traffic in the Usenet version because posts are not gatewayed back >to the mailing list. Oh that's great. Not. >Look for linux.debian.user o

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > newsgroup more convenient. > > 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Not so. News servers no nothing about threads. News clients do. What's more, I believe they use t

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Fury
Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM > > To: Gregory Guthrie > > Cc: recipient list not shown > > Subject: Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list? > > > > Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader. As a matter of > > fact, there > > is more traffic in the Usenet

RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:24 PM > To: Gregory Guthrie > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list? > > Many people DO read debian-user by newsreader

RE: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Goetzke, Christopher L
> -Original Message- > From: Gregory Guthrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 10:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: newsgroup, instead of mail list? > > > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly fi

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Bonard B. Timmons III
>Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a >newsgroup more convenient. > >1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Try a threading mail reader: mutt or gnus. I use gnus and I cannot imagine anything better. Bake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Newsgroup

1997-01-15 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Kendrick Myatt, you wrote: > > Someone mentioned to me once about there being a newsgroup version of this > list. I can't see it from my server, so I assume it's not propagated. What > server do I point my newsreader at to see it. Thanks! :) > llug.sep.bnl.gov Tim --

Re: Newsgroup

1997-01-15 Thread Richard Morin
> Someone mentioned to me once about there being a newsgroup version of this > list. I can't see it from my server, so I assume it's not propagated. What > server do I point my newsreader at to see it. Thanks! :) > > Regards, > > Kendrick > When I have trouble I turn to http://www.dejanews.c

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Shaya Potter
If you think about it, c.o.l is really a misnomer. Linux is not really the operating system. Debian is the operating system. Linux is just a kernel, that many operating systems have based themselves on because it's freely available and it has a lot of support on the net. In that light, pu

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-08 Thread Juri Pakaste
> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: >> Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be >> better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to >> have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread David Gaudine
On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote: > Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be > better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to > have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with > c.o.l.{debian,redhat,caldera,slackware,craftworks,yggdrasil,wgs

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread Juri Pakaste
> "BCW" == Brian C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) >> >> moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.announce moderated group >> comp.os.linux.debian.install moderated group >> comp.os.linux.debian.nontech moderated group >> comp.os.linux.debian.tech moderated

RE: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-06 Thread Casper BodenCummins
If there are 500 posts a day to comp.lang.c++, it strikes me that this group is *begging* to be split up. Besides the wading-through-heaps-of-stuff-you-'re-not-interested-in factor, some of us have to pay to receive news articles and suchlike, and a better targeted audience would save us lots of ti

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-05 Thread Brian C. White
> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) > > moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.announce > moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.install > moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.nontech > moderated group comp.os.linux.debian.tech > moderated group comp.