Re: Membership setting for this group greyed out?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2023-08-01 16:29, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>> but I hope you know that
>> comp.lang.ada is basically not a "google group", but a "USENET news"
>> group that can be accessed via google, but is better accessed through a
>> "news-reader" program (a USENET client).
> 
> Thank you for responding. I didn't realise that.
> That is unfortunate. Most mailing lists just work immediately with any email
> client on any platform, including Android.


The point is that comp.lang.ada is _not_ a mailing list. Different 
technology. If you want to know more about the tech, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet.

Some people (perhaps many people) think USENET is out of date, and 
indeed new discussion fora with a similar purpose are usually built on 
web technology. But I find that USENET offers a better user interface 
than all web fora I've ever experienced, even if limited to text only.

There are several web-oriented Ada discussion fora, for example 
https://forum.ada-lang.io, not to mention stackoverflow and reddit.