Proposed Usenet newsgroup about the Raspberry Pi

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James Harris 13 years ago

I have submitted a formal proposal for a new Usenet newsgroup focussed on the Raspberry Pi (for info on which see

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The decision as to whether the group gets created or not depends largely on interest. If you would like to see the group set up (or even if you don't want it to be set up!) you might want to add a comment to the proposal.

For the proposal see

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or see newsgroup

news.groups.proposals

under the topic

RFD: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

If you would use the new group please add a comment to say whether you would expect only to read the group or also to post to it. Only a word or two are needed. As a guide, some comments are there already.

Apart from whether the group should be created or not various aspects of the proposal can be discussed. Feel free to join in the discussion if you wish to do so.

Bear in mind that news.groups.proposals is moderated so your posts may take a few hours to appear.

There are links in the proposal to the Big 8 Management Board processes and further background info.

This message has been crossposted.

James

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James Harris 13 years ago

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The new newsgroup has been created, named as above.

I am not sure yet how many Usenet providers are already carrying the group but it has been receiving posts for a couple of days and is working normally.

Google does not have it available yet - reputedly they always take a while - but I am told that many providers add Big-8 groups like this one automatically when they receive a control message. So hopefully most people can see it. Feedback on which providers carry the group and which do not would be welcome.

James

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Chris F.A. Johnson 13 years ago

I see it on news.eternal-september.org

Chris F.A. Johnson Author: ======================= Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

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cl 13 years ago

Well I can certainly see it, I guess I'm getting it from News.Individual.NET but as I run leafnode using several sources it's difficult to be sure.

Chris Green

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Mike Tomlinson 13 years ago

In article , snipped-for-privacy@isbd.net writes

The Path: line in a message header will tell you. Here's the header for your post just prior to this, which was posted via individual.net (last but one entry) and which I fetched from ES (first entry).

Path: eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal- september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn. de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni- berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail

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Rob 13 years ago

I can confirm that it is indeed available from news.individual.net

Rob

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A2CPM 13 years ago

I'm accessing it via Google.

BTW, I looked on Asimov for an image for my RasPi that has some kind of A2 emulator. No joy...

Willi

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Philip Herlihy 13 years ago

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Not visible on the Demon newsserver.

Phil, London

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James Harris 13 years ago

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Thanks for this and similar feedback. Over the past few days various Usenet providers have added the group. Some did so automatically and some needed to be asked by their customers. For anyone who still does not have access the key seems to be asking your provider. Many providers have added it very quickly.

For anyone whose provider is slow to add it there are at least three free services that you can use to access the group: eternal- september.org, Google Groups, and aioe.org.

James

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Martin Gregorie 13 years ago

Or on UKFSN and Entanet

martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |

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Johny B Good 13 years ago

Nor on Virgin Media. :-(

Regards, J B Good

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Theo Markettos 13 years ago

Virgin and Demon's server is operated by Highwinds, I don't know about the other two. You can ask them to add it.

Theo

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Martin Gregorie 13 years ago

I've sent requests to UKFSN and Entanet.

martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |

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Stan Barr 13 years ago

It's on individual.net

Cheers, Stan Barr plan.b .at. dsl .dot. pipex .dot. com The future was never like this!

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Gordon Henderson 13 years ago

I gave up on Entanets years ago and moved to Eternal September...

Gordon

Gordons Projects in Devon, UK Projects, Internet Technology, Sysadmin and Training https://projects.drogon.net/ twitter: @drogon

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Martin Gregorie 13 years ago

I'm currently using both the UKFSN and Entanet NNTP servers with Pan. That combination seems to play nicely together.

martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |

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rickman 13 years ago

I am reading it using eternal.september.

Rick

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Stephen Pelc 13 years ago

After asking Demon, comp.sys.raspberry-pi is now available.

Stephen

Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691 web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

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Stephen Pelc 13 years ago

I did and comp.sys.raspberry-pi is now available on the Highwinds servers and hence at Demon.

Stephen

Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691 web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

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Johny B Good 13 years ago

Until now, that is!

Regards, J B Good

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