From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 07:53:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA08306 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:53:40 -0800 Received: from wiley.muc.ditec.de (wiley.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA08296 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:53:28 -0800 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (ns047.munich.netsurf.de [194.64.166.47]) by wiley.muc.ditec.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA02012; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:52:47 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA01031; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:32:59 +0100 Message-Id: <199511271032.LAA01031@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-mailer: EXMH version 1.6.4 10/10/95 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Nov 1995 17:48:00 +0700." Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:32:58 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Responding to: > From: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) > Reply-to: me@gw.muc.ditec.de > Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 95 17:48 MET > Message-id: > > Say, does this look like news or not? Maybe we should actually consider > using news as the "backbone transport" between the various exploders? > Locally they then can be sent out to the end users via mail or be kept > as newsgroups at larger sites (ok, I'm using newsgroups here locally, > so I'm biased, but then, its so much easier to look through the lists > if they are a) in separate newsgroups b) subjects are threaded). I've just not got both - separate directories for each freebsd mail list - threading working using /usr/ports/mail/mh, exmh, & procmail. So xmh & other mh based mail readers should be able to doi similar. PS this is neither to counter nor supplement your suggestion, (you (Michael) know much more about news systems than me), I just offer it as additional info :-) > Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de > Fermentation fault (coors dumped) > Julian --- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/