Re: Mailing lists...

On Fri, Mar 25 2005, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * Reiner Steib (2005-03-24) writes:
[...]
>> Well, compared to Gmane, the archive at SF sucks.
>
> What I like very much about the web interface for reading is that you
> can use the same key bindings as in Gnus, e.g. SPC or `n'. (c:

It is Gnus implemented in JavaScript.  ;-)

> However, the search capabilities on search.gmane.org are very limited,
> so in case I am searching for older messages and need more
> flexibility, I use rain.gmane.org instead.  Hopefully this will become
> the regular search soon.

ACK.

>> bug-auctex	gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs         Bug reports on AUCTeX
>
> Better "Bug reports for AUCTeX"?

Yes.

>> auctex-commit   gmane.emacs.auctex.commits      Commits to the AUCTeX repository (read-only)
>> auctex-diffs    gmane.emacs.auctex.cvs          AUCTeX commit messages (read-only)
>
> Hm, Emacs has gmane.emacs.cvs for commit notifications (emacs-commit
> mailing list) and gmane.emacs.diffs for commits with diffs
> (emacs-diffs mailing list).  This doesn't seem to be handled uniformly
> across the lists on Gmane.  Personally I like your proposal better.

I guess my proposal was based on gmane.emacs.gnus.{commits,cvs}.

> We could make the distinction more clear with descriptions like
> "AUCTeX CVS commit notifications" for gmane.emacs.auctex.commits and
> "AUCTeX CVS commit messages with diffs" for gmane.emacs.auctex.cvs.

Fine with me.

> BTW, your message I got via email had an MFT header directing to the
> AUCTeX mailing list only.  As this was a crosspost to the AUCTeX and
> preview-latex-devel lists, this does not seem to be appropriate.  Or
> did I get something wrong?

Maybe a bug in Gmane's rewriting when "Mail-Copies-To: nobody" is
present in cross-posts?  I'll ask on gmane.discuss ... see
<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/[email protected]>.
Let's see what happens: I'll not add "Mail-Copies-To: nobody" in this
message.

Bye, Reiner.
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