[Coco] Re: Where's everybody goin'?

[Bootstrap Bill]

"John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net> wrote in message
news:c2u50b$njn$1 at sea.gmane.org...

> KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> > In a message dated 3/12/04 2:07:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,

>   wb8tyw at qsl.net

> > writes:

> >

> >>Maybe they switched to the gmane newsgroup?

> >

> > What is the gmane newsgroup?  Is that sort of like bit.listserv.coco, a

> > netnews substitute for email?

>

> Yes.

>

> Set up your news reader to use news.gmane.org as a server.  Then

> subscribe to the newsgroup gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco.

>

> You must post with an unmunged e-mail address that you can receive mail

> from.  You will get a confirmation e-mail message with instructions that

> you must follow for your post to be accepted.  You will only get the

> confirmation notice on your first post.

>

> The gmane news server mungs anything it thinks is an e-mail address.

> For real e-mail addresses, it creates a temporary alias which it

> substitutes in the message.

>

> Thus for a brief period of time mailing to the e-mail address shown for

> this post will reach me.

>

> When a mailing list gets to a high enough volume, it is much easier for

> me to follow it from a newsreader.

>

> > Three of the names are not people I would expect to unsubscribe from

> > maltedmedia.

> > When I go on vacation, I turn off mail but remain subscribed.  In fact,

I'

> > still subscribed at PUCC, just haven't turned on mail for 4

onths.  --Mike K.

>

>  From the looks of things, no one can send e-mail to the PUCC any more.

>

> I do not know if someone has contacted the news server that handles the

> bit.listserv.coco and offered to become the new owner if Princeton

> officially abandons the mailing list and another "bitnet" member does

> not pick it up.  That way the newsgroup will not get removed.

>

Why not mirror the gmane list to bit.listserv.coco? The advantage is that
google will archive the messages.