Re: how to subscribe to lists.freedesktop.org

[leon]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

 | Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
 | 
 | > Well, I was looking for a way to have all the mailing lists
 | > @list.freedesktop.org available under gnus. I don't know if there is a
 | > backend similar nntp. 
 | 
 | I deal with mailing lists by subscribing to them normally and using
 | gnus-(fancy-)split-methods to sort each list into its own group.  I
 | also make groups that correspond to mailing lists total-expirable so
 | that mail doesn't back up and eat up my filespace quota, and set the
 | to-address group parameter so that follow-ups to list messages only go
 | to the list and never to the sender.
 | 
 | You also might look at gmane.org (from the creators of Gnus!), which
 | offers news copies of lots of mailing lists.  In particular,
 | nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.comp.freedesktop.* might be the set of
 | groups you're looking for.
 | 
 |   --dzm

So far the best solution.

Thanks.

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