Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 18:17 +0200, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > 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. > > 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