From help-request at octave dot org Thu Sep 8 15:37:08 2005 Subject: Re: google groups and Usenet From: Colin Ingram To: Wdflannery at aol dot com, maintainers@octave.org, help@octave.org Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:33:12 -0500 I'm sending this back to the lists. Wdflannery at aol dot com wrote: > It is very simple to set up a Google group. It would take all of 3 > minutes. Then, send out a letter to the mailing list telling > everyone to join the google group. Group name OCTAVE or OCTAVE USERS > GROUP. When you join a google group you can elect to receive all the > posts as email or not.... > > I think all the gateways..usenets...etc... complications are unnecessary. > > WDF I don't want to create a new mailing list. (which I think is what this procedure would do.) Nor do I think everyone on the list wants to send their messages to two different mailing lists just for my benefit. what I am thinking of is more along the lines of debian-user is set up so that it is mirror as linux.debian.user and I can read it from google groups without having the thousands of users sign up for google groups ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------