Re: Mailing lists help [it was: Help with hooks]

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eric S Fraga wrote:

>> I subscribed via e-mail to the list. I am using Thunderbird
>> to read the digests. I have never used Usenet, although
>> I have heard about it. I know I could use better tools to
>> use mailing lists, but I don't understand the options you
>> are offering to help me.
>
> Using TB (or any other email tool) is perfectly fine.
>
> If, however, you wish to access the newsgroup Emmanuel
> suggested, gmane.emacs.help, you should be able to do that
> via TB as well; at least, the last time I used TB, which was
> some years ago now, it had support for newsgroups.
>
> If you do wish to try using "news" instead of "email", the
> newsgroup server is "news.gwene.org" and the newsgroup to
> subscribe to is "gmane.emacs.help". You might wish to try
> this but email subscription, as you have already, is
> perfectly fine.

The mailing list is help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org - any e-mail client
(or "MUA", mail user agent) is fine, including Thunderbird,
they should vary a great deal tho in what capacity they can do
mail splitting to organize the material neatly.

The Gmane group is gmane.emacs.help and the server is
news.gmane.io - I have not heard of anyone using Gmane with
any other client than Emacs Gnus. Anyway here the organizing
is implied/automatic.

The material should be the same on help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org and
gmane.emacs.help because that is what Gmane does, it is
a mail-to-NNTP gateway, and that particular newsgroup is
linked specifically to the mentioned mailing list.

The Usenet group is gnu.emacs.help - a free-of-charge server
is news.eternal-september.org. Any client is fine (etc)

However, previously there was a gateway operational for
gnu.emacs.help and help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org as well, but I heard
it doesn't work anymore. If it doesn't, I wouldn't recommend
using gnu.emacs.help since any traffic there won't turn up on
the mailing list, and vice versa.

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