[syslinux] adding syslinux mailing list to gmane.org

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 2 02:27:29 PST 2005


Jernej Simoncic wrote:
> 
>>This list used to be available via NNTP from news.zytor.com, I
>>restricted it after it became clear ALL users that ever connected to it 
>>were spam harvesters.
> 
> GMane allows you to encrypt all e-mail addresses (actually anything that
> looks remotely like an e-mail address), so that they aren't visible on the
> NNTP interface - they look something like this:
> <jernej.listsonly-lXNMKbDqVIA at public.gmane.org> (this address actually
> works and forwards messages to the real address, but only after validating
> the sender's e-mail address). The HTTP interface will also hide the e-mail
> addresses, and will display an image with the address if you click on the
> link.
> 
> IMHO, GMane has one of the nicest HTTP interfaces to archives, and nothing
> beats NNTP access.
> 

Again, I have problems with third-party archives, and gmane in 
particular (the fact that they sign up mailing lists without permission 
is just the beginning...), so that's not going to happen.

However, if people feel it's worthwhile, I could re-enable the NNTP 
interface.

	-hpa




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