Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 10:01 AM, softwatt wrote:
> > On 10/10/2014 02:27 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > > I also read this
> > > mail list via NNTP (easier to keep track of threads)
> >
> > This is perfect for me. But information on the net is scarce and I don't
> > know where to begin. I know that I can access linux.debian.* and read
> > stuff, but that would require a -often paid- Usenet account.
> >
> > Is there an open readonly server specifically for Debian? Mozilla does
> > this (news.mozilla.org)
> >
> > According to: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists
> > There are 4 ways to read the list:
> >
> >   - Email when subscribed to the list.
> >   - A Web browser viewing the archives, which are public.
> >   - Usenet with Network News (Transfer|Transport) Protocol, NNTP.
> >   - The mail-to-news gateways linux.debian.*
> >
> > I guess my question is how to do the third one.
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> You don't need to use a paid server.  There are plenty of free ones
> available.  Personally, I use eternal-september.com.  It's been pretty
> solid for me and contains all of the newsgroups I want.  No binary
> newsgroups, but I can life with that.
>
> You can't post to Debian from there (because it's just a mirror of the
> mailing list), but you can post to real newsgroups.


Note that a lot of list-to-usenet gateway software can be 
bi-directional, depending on administrative settings.

As someone pointed out, debian-user is gatewayed to gmane - which, in 
turn, EXPOSES AN NNTP FEED.

Point your newsreader at nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user

If this gets to the list, then one can post through it as well.

Miles Fidelman