Re: on a buffer performance test on GNU EMACS 28

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> writes:

> Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> writes:
>

[...]

>> This was an accident. I apologize. I thought I had written to USENET's
>> gnu.emacs.help. Thanks for the kind reply!
>
> But, you see, I believe gnu.emacs.help mirrors some mail list and when I
> post to it, I think it stays in the newsgroup instead of going to the
> mail list. Why do I think that? I think someone told me that once, so
> I guess I didn't even quite follow the implicit advice there. Anyhow, I
> think my emacs.help community is actually very small.

To my embarrassment, I don't know how it works, either. I use Gnus as a
newsreader, and access these emacs.* groups via nntp. But sometimes I
followup using "F", and sometimes I reply with "S W". I'm often not even
aware of which I've used. In the latter case, I must be sending email to
ding@gnus.org, but it all ends up looking the same to me.

> I don't really know how it works. Must I subscribe myself to
> emacs.help, the mail list? Perhaps if I were a subscriber, then my
> messages would go to the mail list. Alright, I just did that. I'm
> subscribed. Let's see what happens.

I never signed up for anything, and I'm sure I sometimes reply-by-mail
to help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org rather than following up to gmane.emacs.help,
and nothing has ever asked me to subscribe.

You message I'm following up on has these headers:

Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
To: ding@gnus.org

So is that belt *and* suspenders?