On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:
Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting.
I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely.
You mention Gnus as your newsreader. Try using it for mail then. It's quite workable. Then you get all the benefits of news that you need.
/Andreas
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