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

"dave boland" <dboland9@fastmail.fm> wrote in message 
news:1317088585.19753.140258148080037@webmail.messagingengine.com...
> I can get gmane to list all of the subscribed LO newsgroups and it
> contains all of the messages in this thread.  Not sure how that
> happened, but...  I'm not able to post to the group though, so this is
> of no value to me until I can.

The Gmane service provides an NNTP (News) interface to an e-mail (SMTP) 
*list*. It does this by taking the e-mail messages sent to the list and 
transferring them to a news group - and vice versa. To post to a group via 
Gmane the e-mail address from which you intend to post needs to be 
authorised,= by Gmane. So, the procedure is:
1. Post to the group from your intended e-mail address.
2. Check that e-mail address's Inbox for a message from the Gmane 
Authoriser.
3. When you get that message, reply to it - no actual text necessary
4. Wait for another message from the Gmane Authoriser saying you are 
authorised. You are now authorised ;-)

Note too that the rules for different e-mail lists are different:
1. For some mail-lists, including, I believe, the old OOo groups, it is 
*not* necessary for the e-mail address mentioned above to also be subscribed 
to the list.
2. For some lists, including, I believe, the LO lists, it *is* necessary for 
the e-mail address to be subscribed. Typically you would subscribe using the 
"nomail" (or equivalent) option so that you don't also get all the mail 
messages.

> From the Help for the users@global.libreoffice.org mail list:

== begin extract from help ===
To subscribe to the "nomail" version of this list send a message to:

users+subscribe-nomail@global.libreoffice.org

The nomail version of a list means that you are reccognized as a
subscriber, but will not get any messages to the list. This is useful when 
it's
necessary to post from several emailaddresses to a subscribers only list.
=== end extract from help ===

Harold Fuchs
London, England 



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