Re: Debian newgroup

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:31:11PM -0600, dvanbalen@jam.rr.com wrote:
> Scott Henson <shenson2@wvu.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 10:54, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 dvanbalen@jam.rr.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And groups.google.com (formerly deja.com) will still let you post to
> > > > news groups after signing up for a free accoun.
> > > 
> > > Much to the extreme annoyance of the usenet community as a whole.
> > > Largest source of Usenet trolls in existance (since most are too stupid
> > > to use a mail2news gateway, thankfully)
> > 
> > What is this mail2news gateway thing.  All I want to do is sign on to
> > the debian newsgroups and see what they are talking aobut.  Could
> > someone please clue me in on some easy way to do this.
> 
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=linux.debian&meta=

I looked at this. It seems to be archives of debian lists. I found some of my
own recent posts, and recent discussions from debian-user that I have followed.
The difference is that user interface is somewhat more to my liking than that
provided by the debian archive of lists. 

Am I correct in thinking that it is really the same good stuff, 
only package differently?


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Paul E Condon 
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