---
title: "GMane: read mailing lists via news readers"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/6/gmane-read-mailing-lists-via-news-readers.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/6/gmane-read-mailing-lists-via-news-readers.html"
published: "2004-09-06T18:49:00"
updated: "2004-09-06T18:49:00"
tags: ["Cool sites", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "this is a great find via the win-tech off topic mailing list: subscribe to mailing lists - from your newsreader! how? www.gmane.org allows subscribing to a mailing list but instead of getting it by email - you get it…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# GMane: read mailing lists via news readers

By Roy Osherove September 6, 2004 In [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 6, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

this is a great find via the win-tech off topic mailing list:

subscribe to mailing lists - from your newsreader!

how? [www.gmane.org](http://www.gmane.org/)   allows subscribing to a mailing list but instead of getting it by email - you get it via any NNTP reader. This is cool because now Instead of getting the win-tech-off-topic as emails in outlook I can read it through outlook express or 40tude dialog (my favorite news agent) using the address:

I use the gmane news server: news.gmane.org

then I subscribe to the group: _gmane.comp.windows.off-topic_

also - for the Nunit developers mailing list:  _gmane.comp.windows.dotnet.nunit.deve_

do you want a mailing list that is not there? simply add it to gmane and subscribe to it via news reader. very cool. very nice.

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