From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:09:47 +0200 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Is there a list for Limbo/Inferno discussion? Message-ID: <20000927110947.R26209@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <3.0.5.32.20000926010424.00abd100@mail.real.com> <970010357.24790.0.nnrp-14.c2decf94@news.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <970010357.24790.0.nnrp-14.c2decf94@news.demon.co.uk>; from forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:53:30AM +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 109713fa-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:53:30AM +0000, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: > > i was originally hoping to stick to usenet for open inferno/limbo discussion, because > i like the public nature and the threading of articles, but it begins to look > as though that's not adequate. i'm setting up lists for Inferno and Limbo now. > i think it will be hard to gateway between them and usenet, but with luck i'm wrong. > does anyone care? I used news2mail and mail2news for a long time for mostly private newsgroups and mailing lists, and it seemed adequate. I can't quite recall which way it went, but it made a lot more sense to do news first and mail later (or the reverse) although that didn't seem obvious at first. The main reason for doing it, though, was the archive nature of netnews, once one turns off expiry. I have no Internet News access, so, no, I don't care, but being able to point a newsreader (I thought for a while that Netscape had a reasonable implementation, but I'm told Free Agent is better in the Windows World) at a host, if necessary with access control, would appeal to me immensely. ++L PS: Your lines have crawled back to beyond my margins :-)