Re: OT: This forum

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2010, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID: <4CB3A7A2.1040307@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101012T012512-764@post.gmane.org>

On 11/10/10 16:35, Maaartin wrote:

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> 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).