From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 22:46:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47569106564A for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tl32@next.online.no) Received: from mail43.e.nsc.no (mail43.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F4E8FC19 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tl32@next.online.no) Received: from [212.251.178.97] (212251178097.customer.cdi.no [212.251.178.97]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail43.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id m2OMk7YF007407 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:46:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <47E82F2D.8000905@next.online.no> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:46:05 +0100 From: Tore Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080229) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1206146157.6973.21.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <9CA3D4489328B8E911387EE0@Macintosh.local> <1206160383.6973.42.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <200803220724.05759.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <47E58E08.2040907@next.online.no> <20080322233254.GA5940@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <47E6208F.4020104@next.online.no> <20080324204854.35af3af7@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080324204854.35af3af7@gumby.homeunix.com.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: List replies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:46:10 -0000 RW wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100 > Tore Lund wrote: > >> An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD >> would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups - >> something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea. > > You can access the FreeBSD mailing lists through the gmane newserver: > news.gmane.org. I find it very useful for lists I only rarely read - > particularly for lists related to ports. Most list will accept posts > through the server. > > You still need a valid email address to post though - the first post > made through the news server needs to be validated by an email reply. Thank you for this information. I have monitored some of the lists through interfaces like muc.lists.freebsd.* and others, but they all seem to miss some posts. Hopefully, gmane is better. -- Tore