Re: Different background color for different windows/modes

[Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>]

Alexandre Oberlin wrote:

> Someone gave me a hint to do this in Emacs
> 24.4+ but I don't find the message on
> gnu.emacs.help (Is this NG dying?).

Usenet has been dying for a very long time.
Many once hugely populated groups are
completely quiet or consists only of senior
citizens telling their tales and reliving their
memories, not caring much what the topic of the
group is. They still have the knowledge tho so
it can be useful to ask questions. And not just
for the 1975 answer.

Are you getting gnu.emacs.help from aioe.org?
Well, the newsgroup is operational.

Last time I heard, the mailing list had a small
program attached that posted all incomings to
gnu.emacs.help, and reposted newsgroup posts as
mails - I suppose? - however that seemed not to
have ever worked perfectly, and now, it seems
it is left adrift even more so...

But there is no real reason to use
gnu.emacs.help anymore. If you want the mailing
list material but with the superior Usenet
common interface and organization, you can use
gmane.emacs.help - this is the hole purpose of
Gmane, to enable us to use mailing lists
as newsgroups.

Which is much better. Many people realize this,
while others are in denial.

Gmane is the best of both world, the
on-topicness of mailing lists, and the interface
and organization of Usenet. That's why I call
Gmane "Usenet 2.0" or "Usenet Reloaded".

Sadly, it is only partly true. Because what it
isn't, and never will be (why?), is the
computer culture, the Might and Magic world
that was old Usenet, with heroes, villains,
techno-wizards, and jesters - fuds that lasted
decades and discussions about virtually
*anything* - a whole superstructure of HUMANS
on top of the technology. Now there's only
technology left.

Where are the humans? H-e-l-l-o-o? Can anyone
read this?!

-- 
underground experts united
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