It’s been a week of exciting discoveries. I simultaneously feel far too old (just visited a chatroom for the first time in ten years or so, just to check IRC worked), and far too young (having never used usenet)…
So can anyone tell me which free usenet server (are they called list-servers?) I should get on in the UK? Specifically to look at the archives for the SUSE mailing lists more easily, in case that matters*. Though no doubt once I have it installed I’ll look at some other stuff too - I’m hoping, naively or not, that any given server tends to carry pretty much everything.
Also what newsreaders work well for gnome and kde? **
I’ve installed pan on my gnome box, which seems highly regarded, though I don’t know whether it’s still developing. Does everyone on the other side just use Knode or what?
Also, what is the internet thing everyone keeps talking about?
Thanks…
Yes, I am aware they’re available on this particular tube as well! I just would like to see how it works using newsreader software, to see if I prefer the interface.
** Yes, I know, I hate that kind of question too. But I’m not asking you to tell me which one is best, just to give me a shortlist to look into, because most of the run-downs I’ve found by googling seem quite old, and I’ve never really trusted those things too far anyway… At least on a forum you kind of know some of the people and personalities that come with the recommendations, if you see what I mean…
Well I can’t help with the usenet stuff… but two new’s reading app’s/RSS reader’s I personally use are Knode and Akregator, Also Thunderbird as a new’s reader is quite nice as the UI atleast to me feel’s “similar”. They are def not “all singing, all dancing” (well maybe thunderbird is :P) but they get the job done, have a nice layout even before you start messing with them.
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:36:01 +0000, Confuseling wrote:
> So can anyone tell me which free usenet server (are they called
> list-servers?)
List servers are mailing list servers; usenet is something different.
The two major newsreaders are knode and pan (for KDE and GNOME,
respectively). Text mode gives you trn, slrn, and some variants of those
newsreaders.
Pan is still in development, though the primary developer has been
devoting more time to a bittorrent client he’s working on; but there are
members of the pan community who are contributing fixes, and one member
who has set up his own git repository for those patches to be contributed
to.
For looking at the SUSE Mailing lists via an NNTP server, check out news.gmane.org - it’s a mail list to newsgroup gateway (I use that myself
for participation in the mailing lists).
states that I can’t post through it though - it’d be ideal if I could, because Thunderbird wants to reply to the person who sent the message, rather than the list; you can get around it, but it’s awkward. Is the page outdated?
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:56:01 +0000, Confuseling wrote:
> states that I can’t post through it though - it’d be ideal if I could,
> because Thunderbird wants to reply to the person who sent the message,
> rather than the list; you can get around it, but it’s awkward. Is the
> page outdated?
It is - you need to post with the same e-mail address you’ve subscribed
to the list with - what I usually do is sub with ‘nomail’ as my option,
then you should be able to post.
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:26:02 +0000, Confuseling wrote:
> Excellent - thanks for your help.
>
> That’s what I’ll do. And then I’ll use it to tell the wiki team to
> update that page.
I should caveat that that’s how I participate in the other lists - I
haven’t tried the Wiki list specifically (though I do read it). But it should work.
