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[Linas Vepstas]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:50:24AM -1000, Bill Wohler was heard to remark:
> newsgate at merconline.com (News Gateway) writes:
> 
> > gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org is now available via NNTP at
> > news.linuxguru.net in the lists.gnucash.devel group. Here are some quick
> > notes:
> 
> Cool, thanks!
> 
> > 2. The feed is one way only. Posting is disabled, and even if posting
> > were enabled there is now mechanism in place to send posts on the
> > newsgroup to the mailing list.
> 
> Unfortunately, you can't send email to the list unless you are
> subscribed. To get around this, subscribe to the list, go to your
> subscription options page, and check the box to disable delivery. Then
> you can post by mailing to the list, but not get the deluge of
> messages ;-) and read the list via the newsgroup.

If someone writes this up in a generic way, I can post it as a web-page
on www.gnucash.org  -- i.e. which lists are on which newservers, thier
names, the cross-posting issues, and workaroudns, etc.

--linas


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