Re: Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Markus Schöpflin <no.spam@spam.spam> writes:

>>> BTW, did you ever consider registering the mailing list with
>>> gmane.org?
>>
>> Never heard of such a thing. What is the cost to me of doing that, and
>> where would I find out more about it?
>
> Gmane is a mail-to-news-and-back gateway which also does archiving of the mails.
>
> AFAICT there is no cost involved, 

The primary cost appears to be yet more exposure to spam. And I didn't
see an "unsubscribe" option, but I'll assume there is one.

> have a look at http://gmane.org/about.php for more information. You
> can subscribe your list via http://gmane.org/subscribe.php 

Done.

>>> I find it much more convenient to follow a mailing list via NNTP.
>>
>> Interesting. What newsreader and mailreader are you using? I use Emacs
>> Gnus, and it's actually hard to tell the difference between newsgroups
>> and mailing lists (except that my commercial news server is less
>> reliable than my commercial mail server).
>
> For mail I have no choice but to use Outlook, 

My sympathies. Although I am truly puzzled by the "no choice" part -
what's stopping you from getting your own Internet connection, and
running your own software?

> for NNTP reading I'm using Thunderbird. This explains my motivation to
> use news groups instead of mail pretty well, I think. :-)

So it's the client user interface you like, not necessarily the
underlying network communication protocol. 

Use Gnus, you'll be much happier. The user interface is nicely
orthogonal to the network protocol, as it should be.

-- 
-- Stephe