Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

"Larry Gusaas" <larry.gusaas@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:i9lgl4$a59$1@dough.gmane.org...
> On 2010/10/19 4:27 PM  Jon Hamkins wrote:
> > On 10/19/2010 10:55 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
> > > Wrong. The purpose of gmane is to receive and write messages with a
> > > newsreader rather than an email client.
> >
> > Oh, please.
> >
> > 1. This purpose is *also* not defeated by having to be subscribed to the 
> > mailing list.
>
> Gmane states on http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discus:
> "Status    posting allowed".
> There should not be a need to nor is the requirement stated that you need 
> to subscribe to the mailing list as well. Someone going to that page may 
> decide to post to this list through Gmane. They reply to the confirmation 
> message they receive from Gmane but their post never appears on the group. 
> What is there opinion going to be of LibreOffice then?
>
> > 2. Gmane offers more than NNTP, it has a web interface too.
>
> Yes it does. Your original statement was "The purpose is to be able to 
> read and write messages on a web forum". You said nothing about NNTP
>
> > The first method mentioned for reading the archive is *on the web*. 
> > Whether one chooses to read from the web or as a newsgroup via NNTP is 
> > beside the point.
>
> The primary purpose of Gmane is to make email lists available through 
> NNTP. See http://gmane.org/about.php
>
>    "This is what Gmane offers. Mailing lists are funneled into news 
> groups. This isn't a new
>    idea; several mail-to-news gateways exist. What's new with Gmane is 
> that no messages are
>    ever expired from the server, and the gateway is bidirectional"
>
> > In fact, for many people, if they read via NNTP, they are still using 
> > their mail client.  Thunderbird, Outlook Express, etc. are mail clients 
> > that have built-in newsreading capabilities (and RSS for that matter).
>
> I use a newsgroup reader. The fact that Thunderbird is also an email 
> client is irrelevant.

If this message gets through then I think I've found what seems to be the 
only way, at the moment at least, to read *and* write the TDF lists via 
Gmane using an (NNTP) News reader:
1. Subscribe an e-mail address of your choice to the "nomail" version of the 
TDF list. You do this by sending an e-mail to 
xxx+subscribe-nomail@documentfoundation.org where "xxx" is the name of the 
lists - users, discuss, announce, whatever. As usual, you will get back a 
confirmation request to which you must reply.
2. Subscribe the same e-mail address to your Gmane news account.

As I say, if this gets through then the above works.

I'm going to wait and see if it does get through before commenting further.


--
Harold Fuchs
London, England 



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