# OT: This forum 4 messages from 2010-10-11 to 2010-10-13. Participants: Maaartin, Chris Packham, Jakub Narebski, Scott R. Godin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25422 ## Maaartin, 2010-10-11 23:35 Subject: OT: This forum Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20101012T012512-764%40post.gmane.org ``` 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. ``` ## Chris Packham, 2010-10-12 00:11 Subject: Re: OT: This forum Message-ID: <4CB3A7A2.1040307@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CB3A7A2.1040307%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 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). ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2010-10-12 00:29 Subject: Re: OT: This forum Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3sk0cdzkn.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Maaartin 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 ``` ## Scott R. Godin, 2010-10-13 14:35 Subject: Re: OT: This forum Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/i94g34%244kt%241%40dough.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` 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. -- (please respond to the list as opposed to my email box directly, unless you are supplying private information you don't want public on the list) ```