On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:11:36 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:06:51PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: >> >> [caution: rant ahead] >> >> Argh -- I already *have* usenet access through NiN, and a very nicely >> detailed slrn config -- debian's list people should use a more >> competent mail2news gateway that doesn't suck and break threading, >> period full stop. This annoys the bejeepers out of me. To use gmane I >> have to figure out how to run 2 nntpervers, what a royal PITA. Why do >> they bother with creating the usenet group linux.deian.user and then >> break interoperability with the list from which the group is derived?! >> >> [/rant]
Maybe is that I missed something but AFAIK, Debian does not have a mail2news gateway, at least nothing that's official. What people do to read the mailing lists from a newsreader is using a NNTP server or using Google Groups (which I don't recommend). >> Bah, I'll go have a cup of tea then maybe I'll face up to implementing >> this silly "gmane" kludge that absolutely should not be necessary. >> Damned frustrating. Or mMaybe I'll just subscribe the normal way and >> spend ridiculously long times loading my mail across this pitiful >> dialup connection. I'll have to think on it. >> >> Anyway, thanks Camaleón for pointing me at that website (which >> absolutely should not be necessary). ? Setting up Gmane (or another news server) is plain easy, I mean, for the client side. Another thing would be you have to configure you own nntp server as a local cache but that's another story... > Ok, so I subscribed the "normal" way, and I'll just periodically purge > the mails to avoid waiting for 857,000 emails to load over dialup. I > don't like it though, and it really strikes me as incredibly obvious > that there's just no excuse for the silliness of no header > interoperability between the mailing list and the usenet group. > Apparently for the sake of someone's ego being tickled by having "bofh" > in their custom headers. Flippin' weenie... > > Glad I got that off my chest, I feel better now. :) I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean nor what you are doing :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jnohaa$d12$3...@dough.gmane.org