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[Bill Wohler]

linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> 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.

Thanks. I think that should be the person who set up the newsgroups
since he'll be aware of more issues than I. He can feel free to steal
my paragraph above.

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