[Mageia-dev] gmane

Wed Jun 15 01:17:04 CEST 2011

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 18:17 +0200, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
+> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:09:23 +0200
+> Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>
+> wrote:
+> > 
+> >  - gmane is clumsy, slow - my tests last September/October reveilled
+> > that with an active list you see 2 replies in the list before the
+> > initial mail is available in gmane. So, people using gmane for posting
+> > will always be behind and may destroy a thread or reply to already
+> > obsolete points. There were also missing mails in the middle of
+> > threads which made it unusable for me.
+> 
+> My experience with gmane is different. Yes it lags a bit but usually by
+> a couple of minutes. Unless you want to use your mailing-list as some
+> kind of real-time communication channel (you shouldn't ;-)), this is ok.
+> 
+> gmane's Web UI is not great but its NNTP gateway, OTOH, works fine for
+> me, both for reading and posting, using claws-mail as my NNTP client.
+> 
+> And the fact that it doesn't ask you to sign for any kind of account is
+> really nice.
+
+For the record, I looked at nntp servers when we started the project as
+it seemed promising and was used by students in a school near my home.
+But from a sysadmin point of view, there isn't much choice :
+- there is inn, and some friends told me scary stories about it
+- cyrus support nntpd but I didn't understood to what extend
+- there is various half finished servers on freshmeat
+- there is proprietary servers ( used by giganews, etc )
+- there is lots of libraries
+- there is server that do not fullfill our need ( leafnode )
+
+So while it would help a lot ( as you can subscribe to lists using a
+rich interface without much hassle, get older mails, and unsubscribe at
+will ), it was not easy to do.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+