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So, people using gmane for posting +</I>>><i> > will always be behind and may destroy a thread or reply to already +</I>>><i> > obsolete points. There were also missing mails in the middle of +</I>>><i> > threads which made it unusable for me. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> My experience with gmane is different. Yes it lags a bit but usually by +</I>>><i> a couple of minutes. Unless you want to use your mailing-list as some +</I>>><i> kind of real-time communication channel (you shouldn't ;-)), this is ok. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> gmane's Web UI is not great but its NNTP gateway, OTOH, works fine for +</I>>><i> me, both for reading and posting, using claws-mail as my NNTP client. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> And the fact that it doesn't ask you to sign for any kind of account is +</I>>><i> really nice. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For the record, I looked at nntp servers when we started the project as +</I>><i> it seemed promising and was used by students in a school near my home. +</I>><i> But from a sysadmin point of view, there isn't much choice : +</I>><i> - there is inn, and some friends told me scary stories about it +</I>><i> - cyrus support nntpd but I didn't understood to what extend +</I>><i> - there is various half finished servers on freshmeat +</I>><i> - there is proprietary servers ( used by giganews, etc ) +</I>><i> - there is lots of libraries +</I>><i> - there is server that do not fullfill our need ( leafnode ) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So while it would help a lot ( as you can subscribe to lists using a +</I>><i> rich interface without much hassle, get older mails, and unsubscribe at +</I>><i> will ), it was not easy to do. +</I> +Wow, that puts me back in time more than a decade, when I spent time +setting up inn on a remote server and leafnode as a local server, +using Emacs/Gnus as client! :) As much as I appreciated the technical +quality of this whole system, I would not go through these ordeals +today. Well, leafnode was easy as a pie, but remembering inn still +makes my neck hairs stand up and everybody knows that Emacs/Gnus is +The Beast by definition! + +-- +wobo +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005673.html">[Mageia-dev] gmane +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005675.html">[Mageia-dev] mesaglut versus freeglut in cauldron +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5676">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5676">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5676">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5676">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |