gmane.org (was Re: [Pmwiki-users] Information gems regarding PmWiki)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I'll have to look at gmane.org, but actually I was planning to build
the search through Google.  :-)

Pm


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:29:52AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> About mirroring the pmwiki list through gmane.org...
> 
> Well, I just looked at http://gmane.org/ and it's just a matter of
> doing it... Here are the instructions:
>      http://gmane.org/add.php
> 
> and it's also possible to import previous mail archives.
> 
> Why would this be a good thing?
> Because we automatically get the possiblitiy of searching the archive 
> (without Pm having to do any extra work).
> 
> In addition, we get the choice of reading/accessing the list as if
> it's a news group (which I personally prefer). And of course, it's
> trivial to create links to posts using URI:s like this:
> 
> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/13955
> 
> Or use a web-interface to browse the list:
> 
> 	http://news.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general
> 
> (it's actually pretty good, they even have keyboard shortcuts working).
> 
> Anyway, I'll leave the decision to Pm, but if other people on this
> list have experience with gmane.org, it's probably a good idea to
> share that.
> 
> /Christian
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Christian Ridderstr?m, +46-8-768 39 44       http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
>