[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 21, Issue 44

Wed Apr 13 07:31:32 UTC 2005

If there's too much vandalism and POV running rampant, then it should
be easy enough to fix it instead of complaining about it. That's why
it's a wiki.

--Mgm

On 4/13/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> SPUI wrote:
> > Alphax wrote:
> >
> >> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sorry about the subject lines...this mailing list really needs to be
> >>> turned into a newsgroup.
> >>>
> >> Newsgroups are not accessable to those without news servers. Email is
> >> available to anyone with Web access.
> >>
> > Not necessarily; it could be set up on a Wikipedia server to which
> > anyone could connect.
> 
> Gmane is such a server, it's news.gmane.org. It's not part of USENET so
> it's not included in the Google index. Anyone with access to NNTP (on
> port 119) and a newsreader (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc.) can
> access it.
> 
> I use Gmane, with my mailing list subscriptions set to "nomail" in my
> mailman preferences.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
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