Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread Mike Horansky
(Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > > good). > > Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? [...] >> The newsgroup was almost dead in my end, until a week ago. It does >> not seem to be up to date though. > >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists to >

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Rob Browning
mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > good). Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but I'd be surprised. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 07:28 PM 27/04/97 -0700, mike horansky wrote: >My take on this is completely different. Using Usenet instead of a >mailing list is more efficient in terms of disk usage and probably cpu >load as well (the sysadmins here tell me that our mail servers have >much higher load spikes now that people

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread George Bonser
FWIW, the debian lists just started showing up again on my news server from someplace in France. I rather LIKE using them in Unsenet format rather than mailing list format only because my mailbox gets enough clutter. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread mike horansky
Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists > >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't > >find the message here anywhere. > > > >I suppose we could create our own debian.*

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't >find the message here anywhere. > >I suppose we could create our own debian.* newsgroups -- but I prefer >getting

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Jim Pick
> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? > > I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in > both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. > > I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't > really recall what the

debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Stefan Eriksson
Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? I subscribe both of those, because some messages does not seem appear in both in the mailing list and the newsgroup. I remember reading something about this a month ago or so, but I can't really recall what the message said.