On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:41 PM songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> Kenneth Parker wrote: > >songbird wrote: > ... > >> check out eternal-september.org :) no binaries. just > >> text. that is all i want to read anyways. > You may see a sea7kenp username pop up occasionally. <snip> > Could you please ship me a personal email, on how you configured gmane and > > LKML to read debian-user? > > gmane is a mail to usenet gateway service. > (Google doesn't like leafnode, by the way). > > when you install leafnode and your favorite newsreader > and get them configured you will still have to download > an active list from the news service provider and then > have to subscribe to each group you would like to use. > > so in the case of LKML the group name is: > > gmane.linux.kernel > which is an alias used for the linux kernel mailing list. > > when you use your newsagent to search for that group > you will have to pull articles to read (via whatever you > use to get messages). leafnode is what i use because i > understand how it works. other people use gnus, but > i've always been used to trn, rn, tin like interfaces > so slrn works well for me. > > so basically there are three chunks to set up to get > going. leafnode, a newsreader/writer and the news > acct itself. none of this is super easy but doable to > anyone who likes to poke at linux/debian, etc. > Many thanks. I just got approval to use gmane and leafnode for purposes, such as this. There might be some excitement, at the Eye Blink Universe ( http://eyeblinkuniverse.com) in the next few Months. > > i'd rather post public messages as that way if anyone > else is reading along or searching they can also use the > information if they like. that's why i like usenet. > Fair enough. Someone else is sure to combine your two, unrelated tasks on the same line, just like I did. Kenneth Parker
