idea?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:32:16 -0700, Chuck Sterling wrote:

> > > Since one day I got 382 messages in the special Mailbox I made for
> > > fedora-list. Is it an idea to start with a news-group? Like
> > > Linux-redhat-misc?
> >
> >there's a gated.rhl-list in news.redhat.com but AFAIK it's read-only :-(
> >why not make it R/W?
> 
> It's read/write at news.gmane.org but you have to be subscribed to write. 
> At least that's how it looks to me after the first pass. When I found out 
> about the news version I unsubscribed but then could not post. I did not 
> get the connection. When I complained the moderator manually subscribed me, 
> and the email started. Then I got the connection. So you get lots of email, 
> but perhaps you could figure out a way to delete it from the server without 
> downloading it?

Why so complicated? Simply disable mail delivery at the bottom of
the following page:

  http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

That way you stay subscribed, but don't receive any messages via mail.

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