On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:27:50 -0500 Michael C Berch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see the value of listing or archiving or whatever it is that > gmane.org offers. The value of GMane is primarily not to list owners, but to list readers/members. GMans gives them: a) A potentially compleat spool of all prior posts, searchable in standard NNTP fashion. b) Ability to use their favourite NNTP client instead of an MUA. Many prefer their netnews clients to MUAs, and find them better featured and more flexible. c) No or lesser requirement to subscribe to the subject lists. They just add/remove themselves from the matching newsgroups in standard netnews fashion. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
