On 2015-08-07, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > <wabenbau <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if >> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2]. > >> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user >> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user > > Yep, gmane as a front-end to gentoo user is very cool and convenient. > You can post/read from any web-browser, once you are set up. Very > useful when you hose a gentoo box or just for regular use. You have to prune > responses you add more lines than your respond to. Also, some special > characters at the beginning of a line cause gmane parsing_constipation, > as do lines too long.
I use gmane 100% of the time for all mailing lists. One note: gmane's internal search feature isn't great, but I've had pretty good luck by putting site:gmane.org into Google qeuries. -- Grant
