Hi, As you guys might know , you can read ilugc via gmane web interface (blog or frames). But gmane also offers nntp service. Which is also free just like web interface is free. One can use nntp client to read. I use pan as news client to read the posts. Configuring pan to read ilugc post is very straight forward, anyone can do it. The interface pan gives is also cool. It is just like reading mails from thunderbird. You can also post to ilugc from pan through gmane. For which the first time only gmane will require to authorize by visiting the crypted link it sends to your subscribed email account. After that it is business as usual. One benefit i find is that i find , it helps to keep mailing list traffic from exploding your inbox, while you still read them and post to them and you remain subscribed. One feature i found bugging me is that ilugc m/l administrator have added encrptyion of mail id so that bots dont spam them, which is good. Gmane offers the email as image so that only humans could read them. I wrote the following script which downloads the image. SO that i dont have to fire up brower to see the image.
==========gmane.sh========= #!/bin/bash wget -O image "http://gmane.org/address.php?string=$1"; eog image ========================================= So i invoke it as $ gmane.sh '[email protected]' Remember qouting is important otherwise script will be confused, as with most bash script. But then you dont need to do the above to email that person. The above is only necessary if you want to see the person's actual email id. I think pan is cool. I have been reading with it for a month now and i wont be going back to the gmail or gmane web interface again to read. I know gmail offers imap and pop services. But gmail web interface offer lot more services. --ashwin _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
