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

Wed Apr 13 09:51:09 UTC 2005

Tim Starling wrote:

>SPUI wrote:
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>>Alphax wrote:
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>>>Blair P. Houghton wrote:
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>>>>Sorry about the subject lines...this mailing list really needs to be
>>>>turned into a newsgroup.
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>>>Newsgroups are not accessable to those without news servers. Email is
>>>available to anyone with Web access.
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>>Not necessarily; it could be set up on a Wikipedia server to which
>>anyone could connect.
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>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.
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>I use Gmane, with my mailing list subscriptions set to "nomail" in my
>mailman preferences.
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>-- Tim Starling
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I don't have access to NNTP.

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