OT: This forum

OT: This forum

[Maaartin]

I read this forum using
http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git
and it sort of works. Except that finding own old posting is quite impossible, 
even when I try searching for the subject, and/or author, and/or pieces of text 
in any combination. It finds some posting, but it misses others, whatever I do. 
Except that I don't know how to attach a file. Except that I'd expect to see a 
thread containing a new reply somewhere on the first page instead of on the 
14th. Except that replies to emails I get (answers to my threads) goes to their 
author instead of to the forum.

Is there a better way for using this forum/mailing list? However, I'd like to 
avoid getting daily dozens of emails.

Re: OT: This forum

[Chris Packham]

On 11/10/10 16:35, Maaartin wrote:
> I read this forum using
> http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git
> and it sort of works. Except that finding own old posting is quite impossible, 
> even when I try searching for the subject, and/or author, and/or pieces of text 
> in any combination. It finds some posting, but it misses others, whatever I do. 
> Except that I don't know how to attach a file. Except that I'd expect to see a 
> thread containing a new reply somewhere on the first page instead of on the 
> 14th. Except that replies to emails I get (answers to my threads) goes to their 
> author instead of to the forum.
> 
> Is there a better way for using this forum/mailing list? However, I'd like to 
> avoid getting daily dozens of emails.

Luckily for you, you don not have to be subscribed to send email to
git@vger.kernel.org, that's the preferred method. By convention on this
list replies are sent to the originator _and_ the mailing list (and
quite often a few people that may provide a better answer to the
questions being asked).

As for searching I sometimes find using google's
site:http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git yields better
results than the gmane's own search (also I'm familiar with how to tell
google to ignore a particular word which can help weed out unwanted
results).

Re: OT: This forum

[Jakub Narebski]

Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> writes:

> I read this forum using
> http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git
> and it sort of works. Except that finding own old posting is quite impossible, 
> even when I try searching for the subject, and/or author, and/or pieces of text 
> in any combination. It finds some posting, but it misses others, whatever I do. 
> Except that I don't know how to attach a file. Except that I'd expect to see a 
> thread containing a new reply somewhere on the first page instead of on the 
> 14th. Except that replies to emails I get (answers to my threads) goes to their 
> author instead of to the forum.
> 
> Is there a better way for using this forum/mailing list? However, I'd like to 
> avoid getting daily dozens of emails.

I personally read git mailing list (and reply) using GMane's NNTP
interface.  

You can read postings using any Usenet news reader, for example Gnus
from GNU Emacs / XEmacs, or KNode from Kontact, ory any mail client
supporting Usenet, using news.gmane.org as server, and subscribing to
gmane.comp.version-control.git (it is described on Gmane).  Those news
readers usually support threading.

But please remember to reply via email, and rather not cut Cc list.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: OT: This forum

[Scott R. Godin]

On 10/11/2010 07:35 PM, Maaartin wrote:
> I read this forum using
> http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git
> and it sort of works. Except that finding own old posting is quite impossible,
> even when I try searching for the subject, and/or author, and/or pieces of text
> in any combination. It finds some posting, but it misses others, whatever I do.
> Except that I don't know how to attach a file. Except that I'd expect to see a
> thread containing a new reply somewhere on the first page instead of on the
> 14th. Except that replies to emails I get (answers to my threads) goes to their
> author instead of to the forum.
>
> Is there a better way for using this forum/mailing list? However, I'd like to
> avoid getting daily dozens of emails.

I second the motion on using the nntp based interface. Works great in 
Thunderbird; there's also knode or pan depending on your IDE-du-jour, 
and if you prefer a console-based one there's always slrn (or even tin).

Opera also has a built in newsreader.


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