2011/6/15 Michael Scherer <m...@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 <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.
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