From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81510 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to subscribe gnu.org mailing lists with gnus Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:23:05 +0100 Message-ID: <8762el1irq.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <87aa42lg5v.fsf@googlemail.com> <87sjht4qt8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ehtd9w6n.fsf@googlemail.com> <87zkc12s67.fsf@jackson.wistly.net> <877gz5fabh.fsf@googlemail.com> <20120301010802.E1BAB1FD21@saturn.ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330809823 3240 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2012 21:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:23:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29790@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 03 22:23:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wQX-0001MV-Gj for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:23:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wOz-0004AQ-3v; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:22:05 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wOy-0004AL-56 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:22:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wOw-0001Wd-6j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:22:03 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wOu-0007qt-5z for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wOp-0000te-4f for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:21:55 +0100 Original-Received: from e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.179.41.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:21:55 +0100 Original-Received: from quintfall by e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:21:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jGnfWNUntWXSv0PK+qb1HOx9Kjw= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81510 Archived-At: Christopher Schmidt writes: > Thorsten 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