A philosophical one
What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no?
Re: A philosophical one
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor wrote: What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] G'day Victor, Debian-User, appears to be mirrored at linux.debian.user, this is good for people wanting to post 1 time questions, with out the 100+ messages a day you get from the full list, I don't see any point in your second sentence though, you don't subscribe to Usenet, in the sense that messages are only sent to you when you request them, not on a regular basis. Cheers Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)
Re: A philosophical one
Joel Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor wrote: What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no? G'day Victor, Debian-User, appears to be mirrored at linux.debian.user, this is good for people wanting to post 1 time questions, with out the 100+ messages a day you get from the full list, Also, debian-user@lists.debian.org is the canonical place to get messages sent here; linux.debian.user isn't run from the Debian servers and so might not always work (it's not necessarily carried by all news servers either). I didn't think messages posted to linux.debian.user showed up here, although somebody might have been brave enough to set up a bidirectional gateway (mail-news gateways are easy, mail-news-mail gateways have considerable danger of mail loops if you get something small wrong). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
list v. Usenet (was Re: A philosophical one)
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What's the relation(ship) between the list debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user? I mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or not? How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to subscribe while in the newsgroup no? Usenet doesn't readily support a subscription model, though moderated groups may approach this standard. My understanding is that linux.debian.user is deprecated in favor of muc.lists.debian.user. This is reported variously but I don't have a reference off the top of my head. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpsBR9XWIzKX.pgp Description: PGP signature
