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Re: New nntp news group for xsl-fo discussion
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- From: owner-xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com (by way of B. Tommie Usdin)
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:56:37 -0500
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:54:34 +0100
From: Martin Stricker <shugal@gmx.de>
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Randall Parker wrote:
> Since I subscribe to a number of lists I have the problem that I have
> to read my e-mail frequently enough to prevent my mail box from
> overflowing. Try going away for a week and I lose lots of messages.
> With news groups they will be there when I return because
> news.barkto.com keeps all messages going back several months.
>
My mailbox is big enough for two weeks if necessary... ;-))
>
> I personally go to a number of vendor news servers (eg
> forums.inprise.com, forums.sybase.com, news.software.ibm.com) and
> find the quality of postings on many of them to be very good. You
> ought to give the world of nntp news servers a second look. The news
> servers run by a number of software vendors are very useful.
>
> >However, I might try the newsgroup, but I would like an email-gateway
> >sending me all the new postings to the group. Suggestions?
>
> I'm not sure if they support that. They might. I'm not sure. Go over
> to news.barkto.com and post a question about that in
> homeless.xml.xsl-fo with a question about what you want to do in the
> subject title. I know George is reading the group since it is new and
> has hardly any traffic and he manages the server.
>
I'll do that in time, thanks very much for you detailed answer, Randall!
Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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