Suggestion: Replace List by Newsgroup

Sam Sharpe lists.redhat at samsharpe.net
Fri Feb 11 22:14:23 UTC 2011


On 11 February 2011 21:55, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 21:30 +0000, Mark Eggers wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:11:34 +0100, Outway wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a specific reason why the fedoraproject chose to use a mailing
>> > list instead of a newsgroup?
>>
>> You could read the mailing list from a list to newsgroup service like
>> gmane.
>>
>> 1. Subscribe to the list
>> 2. Set it so that you don't receive mail from the list
>> 3. Read and post from a newsgroup interface
>>
>> . . . just my two cents.
>>
>> /mde/
>>
>
> Except I can't find gmane in the Fedora repositories.

It's not primarily a program, it's a maillist-newsgroup gateway service:

   http://gmane.org/

You can use any NNTP capable reader to subscribe to the groups on
gmane by pointing that reader to news.gmane.org


-- 
Sam


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