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[Tore Lund]

RW wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:19:11 +0100
> Tore Lund <tl32 at next.online.no> wrote:
> 
>> An HTML forum is probably out of the question, but I wish FreeBSD
>> would at least consider turning the mailing lists into newsgroups -
>> something like news.mozilla.org - unless someone has a better idea.
> 
> You can access the FreeBSD mailing lists through the gmane newserver:
> news.gmane.org. I find it very useful for lists I only rarely read -
> particularly for lists related to ports. Most list will accept posts
> through the server.
> 
> You still need a valid email address to post though  - the first post
> made through the news server needs to be validated by an email reply.

Thank you for this information.  I have monitored some of the lists
through interfaces like muc.lists.freebsd.* and others, but they all
seem to miss some posts.  Hopefully, gmane is better.
-- 
    Tore