Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: 10, 15 yrs ago this newsgroup was *much* larger. What happened? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:04:22 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <87h64wkr95.fsf@example.com> References: <8734rhavhm.fsf@gmail.com> <87jzksuokf.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87le15tmqm.fsf@gmail.com> <87seoqlbof.fsf@fakedomain.nope> <86msexj0oy.fsf@example.com> <87cyftz1ee.fsf@example.com> <878qqcyn7n.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:04:23 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ce53dac67f062ea19901299eef368eba"; logging-data="3891664"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/uJ28/uznq2FskSzORiqnhBSaXKOesgNY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:JpuPOpexcdmxkARZjP9McJKoMhU= sha1:1IkC4HpVfK9FBjGblzUBgxrIqaI= Xref: csiph.com gnu.emacs.help:61006 "W. Greenhouse" writes: > Salvador Mirzo writes: > >> "W. Greenhouse" writes: >> >>> Salvador Mirzo writes: >>> >>>> Richmond writes: >>>> >>>>> Rust Buckett writes: >>>>> >>>>>> steve g writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Maybe ISP (internet service providers) could start to offer access to >>>>>>> USEnet, email, and ftp to their clients again. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Those were the good old days when your ISP hosted an NNTP server. >>>>> >>>>> I'm still here, using news.solani.org >>>> >>>> I'm still here as well, using news.eternal-september.org. >>>> >>>> I wish the emacs-help were gatewayed here. Similarly for emacs-devel. >>>> I need to subscribe to them and then use public-inbox to mirror them and >>>> then set up Gnus to read those public inboxes. :) It's a bit of work! >>> >>> FWIW the emacs-help list is available on NNTP via the Gmane >>> bidirectional news/mail gateway; connect to the news.gmane.io news >>> server and subscribe to gmane.emacs.help. >> >> What are the rules for posting there? I must post with a from-header >> using the e-mail address with which I subscribed myself to the mailing >> list? Is that it? >> >> Thanks for the info. > > The Gmane gateway has its own independent subscription. You just post > with some valid mail address in From, and reply (by email) to the autoreply the > system sends out, and after that you can post by news. > > If you want to obscure your email address, you may do an "X-Archive: > encrypt" header, which creates a Gmane mail alias (which people can > really reply to by mail, if they wish). That's very cool. Thanks for the info.