-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-08-23 at 06:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I'd really MUCH prefer and can use a mailing list. I also allows me to keep email about certain subjects pertinent to me.
The VMware user forums, conducted via News, are very active, mature and the de-facto place to go for collaboration and community support for all VMware's products.
I think you have very little chance of getting an alternate, mailing-list-based forum going.
Furthermore, good news readers, and there are a few for Linux, including the SeaMonkey (Mozilla), KNode (KDE) and Pan (Gnome). There are others and their features vary, but you should work with what's available.
Some of the available readers allow keeping a local copy for reading off-line. Plus, in linux there is "fetchnews" that can pull a full copy of the news groups you want automatically, creating a local news server. It comes with package... Mmmm... things have changed... seems to come with "cyrus-imapd" :-? No, its package "leafnode": Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/ Summary : A Leaf Site NNTP Server Description : Leafnode is a small NNTP server for leaf sites without permanent connections to the Internet. It supports a subset of NNTP and is able to automatically fetch the newsgroups the user reads regularly from the ISP's news server. Once you have configured it, and defined a news server to pull from, then news groups are pulled (fetched) as soon as you try to read from a group the next time you run "fetchnews". Quite nice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGzs36tTMYHG2NR9URAmUmAJ0aXQRwjyBbQnVJcxqO288m43EBTwCfYdhf Xozpmk9eTCQDTg8HlE7JeXA= =t32U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org