Re: [xsl] New nntp news group for xsl-fo discussion

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:54:34 +0100
From: Martin Stricker <shugal@xxxxxx>
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Randall Parker wrote:
>  Since I subscribe to a number of lists I have the problem that I have
>  to read my e-mail frequently enough to prevent my mail box from
>  overflowing. Try going away for a week and I lose lots of messages.
>  With news groups they will be there when I return because
>  news.barkto.com keeps all messages going back several months.
My mailbox is big enough for two weeks if necessary... ;-))
>  I personally go to a number of vendor news servers (eg
>  forums.inprise.com, forums.sybase.com, news.software.ibm.com) and
>  find the quality of postings on many of them to be very good. You
>  ought to give the world of nntp news servers a second look. The news
>  servers run by a number of software vendors are very useful.
>
>  >However, I might try the newsgroup, but I would like an email-gateway
>  >sending me all the new postings to the group. Suggestions?
>
>  I'm not sure if they support that. They might. I'm not sure. Go over
>  to news.barkto.com and post a question about that in
>  homeless.xml.xsl-fo with a question about what you want to do in the
>  subject title. I know George is reading the group since it is new and
>  has hardly any traffic and he manages the server.
I'll do that in time, thanks very much for you detailed answer, Randall!

Best regards,
Martin Stricker

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