Miles Fidelman wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:Looks like this DID get to the list - so you can read and post through gmane's USENET i/f. But... it looks like gmane actually posts via email, not nntp - and the first time you do so, it sends you an email to confirm your email address. As far as users are concerned, it doesn't matter - it all just works -- and, I think, it seems to satisfy a lot of what the OP was asking for.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'tknow 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.Meanwhile, it's not at all clear whether the list-nntp gateway is bi-directional or not - there's not a lot to be found via google, and all of what I find is pretty ancient.I'll ask around a bit and report back what I find.
Sent an email off to the debian listmaster asking about the gateway.Meanwhile - there seems to be an ancient, possibly unmaintained list-mail gateway - robomod@news.nic.it - which moderates the linux.* newsgroup heirarchy. In order to post through it, you need to register by subscribing to the email listlinux-gate@lists.bofh.it -- at http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate
It seems to be running - but... when I tried to post a message via the groups.google.com usenet reader - I got an error message from the robot saying that I need to subscribe -- even though I had just subscribed. So it's running, but the posting interface does not work, at least as far as google groups is concerned.
Jerry: might be an interesting experiment to see if you can post via eternal-september.com - after subscribing to linux-gate.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra