At 10:23 AM 27/04/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists >to the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't >find the message here anywhere. > >I suppose we could create our own debian.* newsgroups -- but I prefer >getting them via e-mail anyways.
Believe it or not, it's actually a good thing IMO. I've been replying to users on debian-user and found that I suddenly receive multiple spam emails everyday (and still are). Posting things to Usenet with your real email address is just asking to be put on the latest spam stuff for the rest of your life :( Thankyou to whoever shut it down :-) Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456-0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .