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From: Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Limited-access technical advice
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 13:07:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqnzk3h8.fsf@notengoamigos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QHKfU-0001Jk-JJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 03 May 2011 14:49:56 -0400")

On Tue, May 03 2011, Richard Stallman wrote:

> It was reported to me that a lot of technical advice about Emacs is
> requested and given in Google groups, which are only visible to people
> who use Gmail.

Google Groups is mostly just a web front end for USENET.  In fact, if
you go to groups.google.com and search for "emacs" gnu.emacs.help and
comp.emacs are the two groups that come up as matches.  Of the two
groups gnu.emacs.help is far and away the most active.  So the good news
is that chances are extremely good that the technical advice that was
reported to you as being on "Google Groups" is actually being done on
gnu.emacs.help.

I believe that you *do* have to have a Google account to post to Google
Groups, but you can read the group without one.  Not that I would
recommend using Google Groups to read gnu.emacs.help.  For all of
Google's technical acumen they do not appear to even attempt to filter
spam on their newsfeeds.

Jason



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 18:49 Limited-access technical advice Richard Stallman
2011-05-03 18:59 ` Stöckert András
2011-05-03 19:09   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-03 18:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-03 19:07 ` Jason Earl [this message]
2011-05-03 19:11   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-03 19:30     ` Jason Earl
2011-05-03 21:38       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-03 19:49     ` Christophe Poncy
2011-05-03 19:55       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-03 20:18         ` Christophe Poncy
2011-05-03 20:43           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-05-04 15:51             ` Free mailing list managers (was Re: Limited-access technical advice) Barry Warsaw
2011-05-03 20:37       ` Limited-access technical advice Ted Zlatanov

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