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The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 06:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> > I'd really MUCH prefer and can use a mailing list. I also allows me
> > to keep email about certain subjects pertinent to me.
> 
> The VMware user forums, conducted via News, are very active, mature and 
> the de-facto place to go for collaboration and community support for 
> all VMware's products.
> 
> I think you have very little chance of getting an alternate, 
> mailing-list-based forum going.
> 
> 
> Furthermore, good news readers, and there are a few for Linux, including 
> the SeaMonkey (Mozilla), KNode (KDE) and Pan (Gnome). There are others 
> and their features vary, but you should work with what's available.

Some of the available readers allow keeping a local copy for reading 
off-line. Plus, in linux there is "fetchnews" that can pull a full copy of 
the news groups you want automatically, creating a local news server. It 
comes with package... Mmmm... things have changed... seems to come with 
"cyrus-imapd" :-?

No, its package "leafnode":

  Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
  URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
  Summary     : A Leaf Site NNTP Server
  Description :
  Leafnode is a small NNTP server for leaf sites without permanent
  connections to the Internet. It supports a subset of NNTP and is able
  to automatically fetch the newsgroups the user reads regularly from the
  ISP's news server.


Once you have configured it, and defined a news server to pull from, then 
news groups are pulled (fetched) as soon as you try to read from a group 
the next time you run "fetchnews". Quite nice.
 

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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