Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Real Usenet newsgroups

On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:50 -0400, jomali wrote: 

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:38 PM, dave boland <dboland9@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > This is why I   r e a l l y   think that it is time to go to regular
> > newsgroups -- a lot less fussing for the user.
> >
> > I have been on the gmane sight twice, and I still don't see how to
> > subscribe.  It is not worth the bother!
> >
> > Spam aside, what are the objections to regular newsgroups?  It just
> > seems like it is the right thing to do at the right time to do it.
>
> Absolutely not. I receive and read the e-mail messages and find them very
> useful. Like many others on this list, I dislike newsgroups and forums
> (fora?). If you like newsgroups, stick to gMane.
>
> jomail

pl of forum in Latin is fori, you are thinking of forae, which is the
genitive/plural ending for feminine nouns (usually end -a) and -um nouns
are usually neuter. (If I remember my Latin from way back in the Dark
Ages LOL) 

> > Dave,
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, September 26, 2011 1:24 PM, "Ken Springer" <snowshed1@q.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 9/26/11 1:16 PM, dave boland wrote:
> > > > Instead, I'll try to figure out this gmane thing.  I've been subscribed
> > > > to:
> > > > gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.documentation
> > > >
> > > > for a few months, but there are never any updates to it, so something
> > > > needs to get fixed.
> > >
> > > A short time back, the email addresses for the mailing lists were
> > > changed, and there were acknowledged problems.  Eventually, I had to
> > > completely redo my settings with both LO and Gmane to get everything
> > > working.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > Mac OS X 10.6.8
> > > Firefox 6.0.2
> > > Thunderbird 6.0.2
> > > LibreOffice 3.3.3
> > --
> >   dave boland
> >  dboland9@fastmail.fm
> >
> > --
> > http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be
> >
> >
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