idea?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 24.01.2004 schrieb Chuck Sterling um 00:32:
> At 11:39 AM 1/23/2004 -0600, you wrote:
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> >El Vie 23 Ene 2004 11:24 AM, Gertjan Vinkesteijn escribió:
> >
> > > Since one day I got 382 messages in the special Mailbox I made for
> > > fedora-list. Is it an idea to start with a news-group? Like
> > > Linux-redhat-misc?
> >
> >there's a gated.rhl-list in news.redhat.com but AFAIK it's read-only :-(
> >why not make it R/W?
> 
> It's read/write at news.gmane.org but you have to be subscribed to write. 
> At least that's how it looks to me after the first pass. When I found out 
> about the news version I unsubscribed but then could not post. I did not 
> get the connection. When I complained the moderator manually subscribed me, 
> and the email started. Then I got the connection. So you get lots of email, 
> but perhaps you could figure out a way to delete it from the server without 
> downloading it?
> 
> Chuck

If your experience is with gmane.org, you will find a detailed
explanation what is necessary to send messages through their system on
their website. It is an anti-spam protection.

If you use mail to read the list you should use an IMAP server and thus
just downloading of those emails you want to read or you even want to
reply to. A client only fetches the mail header info from the IMAP
server while a client connected to a POP3 server always has to fetch the
whole message.

Alexander
 

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