Oracle mailing lists

Guys,

The fellow that coded my newsreader, Gnus, has created a newserver which hosts mailing lists. http://gmane.org.

The service he is providing is that all public mailing lists can now be accessed and responded to through a newsreader. For all the mailing lists I'm on, I'm slowly unsubscribing to them and then reading and posting through this gmane server with my newsreader. (Its completely free. He's a GNU package author, so you can rest assured it will stay free) There are currently about 3000 mailing lists being gatewayed there.

The benefits to me are mainly:

    I don't have to:

• download mailing list mail through the pop server.
• maintain my local splitting rules for the mail.
• clutter my hard drive with mail.
• delete old mailing list mail.

    I can go to the gmane url and:

• subscribe new mailing lists that don't exist.

    I can lurk on mailing lists and not have to recieve and organize all     of the posts.

    I can spend all of my mail organizational time almost solely on my     personal mail.

So, what I would am offering to this group is to have people respond to this post with _public_ mailing lists they subscribe to. Post the url here and I will get over to gmane and subscribe that particular mailing list (or even better, just head on over there yourself and subscribe your mailing list. Its pretty easy). I will then report back that the mailing list is subscribed. Then, the readers of that mailing list can start reading it through their newsreaders, as well as others who might have declined mailing lists before.

FYI, the Oracle mailing list I have already subscribed is oracle_at_p2p.wrox.com. Its gmane hierarchical newserver name is, gmane.comp.db.oracle.devel.

I am also reading about 17 mailing lists that I used to be subscribed to, but most of these have to do with GNU lists. I am finding this newserver very, very helpful. As time went on, I finally just stopped subscribing to mailing lists because the downloading took to long and I got sick of making sure my splitting rules were working. Now, I can read/lurk/post to any of them without having to worry about recieving and organizing mail in my inbox.

One last FYI, the one thing that you have to do, is for each group you want to post to, the first time you post, gmane will contact you. It is looking for a valid email address. Gmane has set up a lot of things to make it hard for spammers. This is one of those things.

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Galen deForest Boyer
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