newsgroup iso email for this list
David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk)
ethnopunk at telkomsa.net
Tue Jan 5 16:36:59 UTC 2010
Detlef Lechner wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 06:15 +0000, user1 wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:13:41 +0000, 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
>>>>>
>> I find it easier to use a newsreader (I use Pan) instead of your e-mail
>> client for managing your mailing lists.
>>
>> Install Pan using synaptic (in ubuntu).
>>
>> Add as news server:
>>
>> Pan - Edit - Edit News Servers - Add - "news.gmane.org"
>>
>> Add your e-mail address:
>>
>> Pan - Edit - Edit Posting Profiles - "your e-mail address"
>>
>
> I have done so. But Pan reports: "news.gmane.org requires a password,
> but none is set."
>
>
>> Then Search for "gmane.comp.video.pitivi.general" as group name (use
>> search box top left in Pan) and then right click on the found group and
>> choose
>> "subscribe".
>>
>
> Pan does not list this group. No groups starting with »gmane.« at all.
> But other groups provided by another German news server.
>
> What went wrong?
>
> Detlef Lechner
>
>
>
Sorry to bother you, but are there any other news servers besides gmane?
Can one get usenet?
DRL
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