Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-02-07 14:22, Robert whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

> Fritz Whittington wrote:
>
>> On or about 2005-02-07 12:59, William Hooper whipped out a trusty #2 
>> pencil and scribbled:
>>
>>> Michael W. Carney said:
>>>  
>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> |
>>>> | And the Really Great Thing [tm] about using the NNTP protocol as 
>>>> a base
>>>> | is that there *are* good news-to-mail and news-to-web gateway 
>>>> software
>>>> | packages! So if the base is NNTP, you can use a newsreader, mail 
>>>> client,
>>>> | or browser (whichever you prefer) to get the messages any way you
>>>> like. |
>>>> | What's not to like?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nothing. Let's *PLEASE* to to a fedora-private nntp system for the
>>>> fedora community "groups". Using mail lists for the community has 
>>>> been and
>>>> continues to be torture.
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are already two ways of viewing this list via NNTP, why do we 
>>> need
>>> another?
>>>
>>> As previously mentioned, gmane.org carries the Fedora lists.  I also go
>>> reminded (thanks to Pete Zaitcev's Blog) that Red Hat also already 
>>> runs an
>>> NNTP gateway (news://news.redhat.com/).
>>>
>>> Anyone wishing to test a "news-to-web" gateway would do well to start
>>> there tests with one of those two.
>>>  
>>>
>> Agreed.  The only problem with the gmane.org news is that it doesn't 
>> seem to propagate postings to it backwards to the list, only from the 
>> list to the newsgroup.  OTOH, if we all just stopped using the list 
>> and just used the newsgroup....
>
>
> This is inaccurate, especially if you can read this reply because it 
> is most assuredly being sent to newsgroup 
> gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general

OK, I'm corrected.  *I* can't seem to get my posts to it to forward to 
the list.  See my reply to William Hooper above.  I presume it's some 
problem in the email confirmation, which I didn't know about until just 
now. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Immanuel Kant)

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