Gmane for list?
For me, the main advantage of gmane would be able to post from it. If I post from myway the message does not get threaded properly but if I post from gmane (using the http interface since I am not always on the same computer) it works properly. Thus I would greatly prefer two way. Note that r-help is currently two way and it seems to work fine. (By the way, the gmane http interface has one very annoying misfeature. If you attempt to post an R console display where lines begin with > it complains about top posting and refuses to send your post.) --- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:03:14 +0200 From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> To: Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> Cc: Webb Sprague <wwsprague@ucdavis.edu>, <r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch> Subject: Re: [Rd] Gmane for list?
"PD" == Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> on 10 May 2004 20:43:32 +0200 writes:
PD> Webb Sprague <wwsprague@ucdavis.edu> writes:
Hi all, I was wondering if I might subscribe this list to gmane.org, so I (and everyone else) might view and search in with a newsreader?
PD> This has already happened with R-help (aka
PD> gmane.comp.lang.r.general), without anyone asking (or
PD> getting...) permission,
not quite: I (as list maintainer) *had* been asked before it
happened -- and I had mentioned it as RFC to the R core mailing list.
PD> and seemingly with no ill effects. So I suggest that you
PD> wait a short while and go ahead if nobody yells out.
yes. As I had told the person who initiated the R-help -> Gmane
I think I'd very much want the mailing list -> News gateway to
be "ONE WAY" only {and this is an option with gmane}.
Because mail filtering has become quite a delicate (and somewhat
complex) procedure to maintain, I'd rather not have to deal with
mail coming from a news gateway as well, where mail headers may
(or may not) have been pre-processed by the forwarding software.
Yes, please feel free to go ahead!
Martin Maechler