[Mageia-dev] gmane

Wed Jun 15 01:44:47 CEST 2011

2011/6/15 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> 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.
+
+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
+