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Title: Replacement of the mailing lists by newsgroups
Post by: grand-pa on October 03, 2004, 02:14:10 AM

Sorry in advance for my bad english.

I've just read the devinfo ML and the discussion about forums vs ML.
For years, the francophone community uses 4 newsgroups (NNTP protocol) to communicate :
* alt.e-smith.fr (more than 17000 messages !)
* alt.e-smith.dev.fr
* alt.e-smith.documentation.fr
* alt.e-smith.hardware.fr

It has many and really interresting features :
* works as mail (hi, Charly ;-) )
* structure of discussions by threads
* keeps messages without time restriction if the NNTP server is configured to do so
* many NNTP servers can be used to access the same newsgroups
* there are many clients on all OSs and some web interfaces like this one (http://www.sme-fr.homelinux.net/forums/index.php).

I think you should really think of this possibility : here, we would be many more to read (and participate to) the lists if they were accessible by this way.
But, maybe we are the "french exception"... :-D

In the case where you wouldn't be interrested in this possibility, would it be possible to subscribe the lists at Gmane (http://gmane.org/), so that they could be accessible with NNTP clients ?

Title: Replacement of the mailing lists by newsgroups
Post by: mbachmann on October 05, 2004, 11:04:19 AM

I would favor ng's over mailing lists and forums.

Title: Replacement of the mailing lists by newsgroups
Post by: stefan24 on November 18, 2004, 04:05:42 PM

Quote from: "mbachmann"

I would favor ng's over mailing lists and forums.

dito.

Stefan

Title: Replacement of the mailing lists by newsgroups
Post by: guest22 on December 11, 2004, 11:49:41 PM

Hi,

Would any of you be willing to write up a procedure for your ideas? Possibly with pro's and Con's keep/not keep and why or combine so people can choose.

You know where to find me ;-)

Cheers,
RequestedDeletion

Title: Replacement of the mailing lists by newsgroups
Post by: stefan24 on December 13, 2004, 09:01:03 AM

RequestedDeletion,

I just checked Gmane.org (which Grand-Pa described above) and found, that the old e-smith-developer list (until 01/2004) is already there. When you open http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.e-smith.devel/ you can see the postings in the mailinglist via web interface (also with an blog like interface) and when using nntp:// you can use any news reader.

I can see no disadvantages using this service, so I would suggest, that you (!) connect the exisiting mailing lists with a new category at gmane (perhaps gmane.network.sme.) so that we could use it (beside the existing mailing list and web interface) with a new web interface and the nntp interface.