"Ant" <duitoolkit@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:dt9vkg$2ch4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> my ISP discontinued usenet service as of Dec 15, 2005

All I can say is, whatever for?

Walter Bright wrote:
> "Ant" <duitoolkit@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:dt9vkg$2ch4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> my ISP discontinued usenet service as of Dec 15, 2005
> 
> All I can say is, whatever for? 
> 
> 
protect children by removing one of the ways of distributing child porn.
other ISPs cut the binary groups.
(of course this is not the place to discuss the merit of that)

Ant

braddr@puremagic.com wrote:
> Walter and I were talking earlier today and one of the topics that came up was
> newsgroup vs mailing list.  The good news is that it doesn't have to be one vs
> the other, but rather a gateway between the two.
> 
> The question:  Who would use the mailing list if it existed.
> 
> Follow-up question: if the list was read-only (ie, a one way gateway), would you
> still use it?
> 
> For myself, I'd prefer to receive mail rather than read via the web or a news
> reader, but I know I'm an odd duck at times.
> 
> A show of hands.. want to be able to get each of the newsgroups via mail?
> 
> 

no man .. the NG is just fine,
althu ideally I would prefer a more modern web-based forum package.

"Sean Kelly" <sean@f4.ca> wrote in message news:dtada5$2ph0$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Good point.  Really, I mostly like Google Groups for its searching capability.  Otherwise, I'm very happy with Thunderbird as my DigitalMars usenet client.

Search is why I set up the newsgroup archives system. Ironically, it relies on google to do the actual search work <g>.

>> I'd prefer a comp.lang.d be set up.
> Aye, that might be nice.

Yup.

braddr@puremagic.com wrote:
> Walter and I were talking earlier today and one of the topics that
> came up was newsgroup vs mailing list.  The good news is that it
> doesn't have to be one vs the other, but rather a gateway between the
> two.
> 
> The question:  Who would use the mailing list if it existed.
> 
> Follow-up question: if the list was read-only (ie, a one way
> gateway), would you still use it?
> 
> For myself, I'd prefer to receive mail rather than read via the web
> or a news reader, but I know I'm an odd duck at times.
> 
> A show of hands.. want to be able to get each of the newsgroups via
> mail?

This could be implemented with a small Perl cron script on any machine outside digitalmars.com. Anybody with telnet access to an account could do this for the community in no time.

As to whether it really is worth the effort, at least I wouldn't subscribe. Mozilla as a newsreader is good enough.

Besides, I frequently switch between threaded, order-received, sorted-by-author, and various filtered views. Piece of cake.
And I mark posts read or unread, and with various colors so I can reread them later if they are too long, or need background research before commenting on.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:46:19 +0200, Georg Wrede wrote:

> Mozilla as a newsreader is good enough.
> 
> Besides, I frequently switch between threaded, order-received,
> sorted-by-author, and various filtered views. Piece of cake.
> And I mark posts read or unread, and with various colors so I can reread
> them later if they are too long, or need background research before
> commenting on.

Yes, a decent newsreader is a good asset. I use two, 40Tude Dialog and Opera. I prefer Dialog but Opera has a reasonable basic one.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocracy!"
21/02/2006 11:49:19 AM

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Georg Wrede wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:46:19 +0200
> From: Georg Wrede <georg.wrede@nospam.org>
> Reply-To:
>     "gatewayed mailing list for nntp://news.digitalmars.com/digitalmars.D"
>     <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>
> To: digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
> Newsgroups: digitalmars.D
> Subject: Re: mailing list vs news group
> 
> braddr@puremagic.com wrote:
> > Walter and I were talking earlier today and one of the topics that came up was newsgroup vs mailing list.  The good news is that it doesn't have to be one vs the other, but rather a gateway between the two.
> > 
> > The question:  Who would use the mailing list if it existed.
> > 
> > Follow-up question: if the list was read-only (ie, a one way
> > gateway), would you still use it?
> > 
> > For myself, I'd prefer to receive mail rather than read via the web or a news reader, but I know I'm an odd duck at times.
> > 
> > A show of hands.. want to be able to get each of the newsgroups via mail?
> 
> This could be implemented with a small Perl cron script on any machine outside digitalmars.com. Anybody with telnet access to an account could do this for the community in no time.
> 
> As to whether it really is worth the effort, at least I wouldn't subscribe. Mozilla as a newsreader is good enough.
> 
> Besides, I frequently switch between threaded, order-received,
> sorted-by-author, and various filtered views. Piece of cake.
> And I mark posts read or unread, and with various colors so I can reread
> them later if they are too long, or need background research before
> commenting on.

I'm well aware that it can be done by anyone.  I was fishing for who was interested in having such a service.  Since it's more than just me, though not a lot of hands were raised, I've gone ahead and setup several of the newsgroups as mailing lists.

	http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

At the moment, they're news -> mail only.  At the toggle of a radio button I can make them two way, but I figured one step at a time.  These have been active since saturday, so there's a bit of mail in the archives already.  Each of the lists can be received as digests for those that want it.

Walter, feel free to put a link on your site if you want.

Anyone, if you want any of the other groups hosted at news.digitalmars.com, just let me know.

Later,
Brad