Many users access the ooo- Apache lists and especially the OpenOffice.org lists using a service called GMANE. There are other services used as well. NNTP is the protocol use for Network Newsgroup that was famous on the pre-Web Internet. GMANE and other services allow newsgroup readers to access e-mail lists as if they are Internet Newsgroups. There are special newsreaders that work with that format, and some users love them.
That part might not matter to you, but it does matter to a number of OpenOffice.org list subscribers. It is also the subject of this thread. What matters to you as a regular OpenOffice.org list subscriber who receives posts via e-mail (or by looking at the archive on the list web pages) is 1. The ooo- lists are not offered on the OpenOffice.org list signups 2. The ooo- lists require individual subscription via e-mail request for e-mail subscribers. No one-stop shopping for adding subscriptions, removing subscriptions, reviewing the archives, and even posting to the lists via a web interface. That is, there is nothing like <http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/>. 3. The ooo- lists are separate and completely independent from the OpenOffice.org lists that deal with the same topics and have similar names. That's how it is at the moment. Does that answer any questions you might have had? Now, I didn't create the subject of this thread and I am not an user of GMANE. I had no knowledge of it until folks on OpenOffice.org lists started complaining about its not being tied into the ooo-users list at first. That has been solved. That is what Larry reported. So please be more civil. Try a cool dunk in Lake Ontario, or grab a cold Genny, ok? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dave Babcock [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 06:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: ooo-users on Gmane On 9/16/2011 12:51 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The Apache list is a new list, not a migration of any existing list. > > How it works with GMANE is however adding any lists that you read under GMANE > works (i.e., subscribing via NNTP). > > If you subscribe to ooo-users@ incubator.apache.org directly, you will need > to go through an e-mail verification ceremony. You can't subscribe to it > using the OpenOffice.org mailing list subscription page and a registration > that works there. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 03:38 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [users] Re: ooo-users on Gmane > > > "Larry Gusaas"<[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> The new Apache OOo Users Mailing List< [email protected]> >> is now available through NNTP at Gmane< >> gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.user> . >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> > Thank you. Do we need to re-subscribe or will our existing subscriptions be > carried over? > > Harold Fuchs > London, England > What the @#??%$# is a GMANE? and an NNTP ??? You are so immersed in your specialties that you forget the average user may not have a clue... Yeh, yeh, I'll Google them. But I shouldn't have to! Ol' Bab -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
