2011/6/14 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:09:23 +0200 > Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@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.
Well, a platform is only as good as it copes with heavy traffic. You should have seen the first weeks after the announcement last September/October - that's when I tested. :) > 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. We are talking about gateways between GUIs and mailing lists, so I did not test how the nntp gateway works. -- wobo