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<wabenbau <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if |
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> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2]. |
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> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user |
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> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user |
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Yep, gmane as a front-end to gentoo user is very cool and convenient. |
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You can post/read from any web-browser, once you are set up. Very |
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useful when you hose a gentoo box or just for regular use. You have to prune |
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responses you add more lines than your respond to. Also, some special |
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characters at the beginning of a line cause gmane parsing_constipation, |
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as do lines too long. |
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Gmane does bork (as a service) periodically. Sometimnes it takes |
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days to get back to normal; often with days of posts missing. |
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caveat emptor. |
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I also subscribe to gentoo-user via nntp. {ymmv} depending on your nntp |
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services. Posting is problematic via nntp:: but can be made to work. |
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Gmane builds threads with the first posting date being the anchor to access |
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the thread. nntp lists the threads by the date of the last (therefore lists |
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the most recent) posting; so I often use nntp to find the thread, note the |
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date of the first posting, then find thyreads in gmane. On |
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older/longer/dated threads it really helps. |
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enjoy! |
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James |
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