newsgroup iso email for this list
Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Fri Nov 20 12:17:29 UTC 2009
On Fri, November 20, 2009 13:15, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Thu, November 19, 2009 21:13, Aart Koelewijn wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As asked:
>>>On Thu, November 19, 2009 11:19, Aart Koelewijn wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't understand why people use email for this list when there is a
>>>> perfect newsgroup, gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, for it. Using that it will
>>>> not clutter your mailbox, and using a newsreader like Pan you get good
>>>> treading. I started reading this list by email but soon switched to
>>>> the
>>>> newsgroup, I find that much more comfortable.
>>
>>> Interesting.
>>>
>>> Could you start a new thread and give detailed information about your
>>> configuration?
>>> Do you use usenet only for reading, or also for writing messages?
>>
>> Configuration is very simple: with your newsreader you subscribe to
>> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user and you can read the group in your favorite
>> newsreader. You can also post to the group as long as you use a valid
>> email-address in the From: header. Gmane will send all your messages to
>> the email-list and will post all email-list messages in the newsgroup.
>> Depending on your newsreader all messages are threaded and/or ordered by
>> date in one place.
>
> One more question.
> You mentioned the group, but what is the preferred usenet server?
Never mind. It's news.gmane.org, right?
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