From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Osu9Q-0003Or-17 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:07:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55942E0833; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1749FE0833 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.135] (helo=smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osu8d-0003Wu-BM for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:06:47 +0200 Received: from 53532a97.cable.casema.nl ([83.83.42.151] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Osu8X-0002rM-F4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:06:41 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016579B5 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:07:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WsinLv3O9H9W for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:07:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 920953E for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:07:16 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:06:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C85BF32.4030800@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009071106.38780.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Osu8X-0002rM-F4 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.11, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_05 -1.11) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 7f971c22-9300-4450-b7eb-3294c65e4dc0 X-Archives-Hash: 9b020619ce48c5a5bb263b4a3d957814 On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote: > > I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news > > server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having > > to pay for access when email works well enough. > > You don't have to pay for access. Everybody can can run his own server > for his own groups. It's the same like running a mailinglist or > running an apache. > > Al But then you need to configure your news-reader to grab the groups from all the different news-servers that are spread around the internet. How is that making things easier then a mailing list? Another reason why news-groups are not very usefull is that most news-servers (at least when I last used them) won't keep all the messages. I have this list (among others) archived on an IMAP-server for quick searching. -- Joost