Re: How to subscribe gnu.org mailing lists with gnus

[Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>]

Christopher Schmidt <christopher@ch.ristopher.com> writes:

> Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Am I supposed (authorized) to do that? I looked at that form, there a
>> quite a few questions the owner of that group should answer and not me.
>>
>> So its not (only) me - it is somehow unclear how to read/write such a
>> group in gnus? I would probably suggest to add that group to gmane to
>> the relevant people, but I'm still not sure if its a real problem or
>> only a newbie problem with an easy solution I'm having?
>
> Well, it's a mailing list.  Why not try subscribing [1] to that list?
> You could set up a mail splitting rule [2] that moves posts of that list
> to a new mail dir.  Use Group Parameters [3] to get some newsgroup-feeling.
>
>         Christopher
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/
> [2] (info "(gnus)Fancy Mail Splitting")
> [3] (info "(gnus)Group Parameters")

You are right, I just noticed that the existence of gmane shielded me
until now from dealing with mailing lists in gnus. In fact, I didn't
even think much about the difference between mailinglists and
newsgroups, since on gmane everything appeared the same. 
Thanks for the links. 
-- 
cheers,
Thorsten