Can I access the lists via NNTP?

Yes, you can access NetBeans mailing lists as newsgroups through a mail-to-news gateway service called GMane. Point your newsreader to the NNTP server news.gmane.org.

The most popular NetBeans newsgroups are:

• gmane.comp.java.ide.netbeans.user (nbusers)
• gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel (nbdev)
• gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel (dev@openide)

Other lists can be found on GMane.

Note that GMane's naming conventions are slightly different than netbeans.org's, so the newsgroups don't necessarily have exactly the same names as the corresponding mailing lists. All groups are in the gmane.comp.java.netbeans.* or gmane.comp.java.ide.netbeans.* hierarchies.

How to use newsgroups:

1. To just read messages in a group, you do not need to be subscribed to anything. Just point your newsreder to the news.gmane.org and choose a list.
2. To be able to post via GMane, you need to reply to an authorization message GMane sends you when you first try to post to a given group.
3. If you post a message via GMane and it bounces, contact the list owner and request that your address be added to the list of non-subscribers allowed to post. GMane refers to this as switching to nomail mode. The list owner address is always of the form <listname>-owner@netbeans.org. E.g. if you want to post to nbusers AT netbeans DOT org, you contact nbusers-owner AT netbeans DOT org.

For other ways of posting to NetBeans lists, see FaqHowToPost