Re: A philosophical one

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Joel Mayes <joel_mayes@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +0000, 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).

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]