Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2021-05-06, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Pointing a newsreader at news.gmane.io allows one to participate in > >> the mailing list just fine without using Usenet. > >> > > ??? Surely that *is* using Usenet, at least you're using NNTP which > > is the Usenet protocol. What's "not Usenet" about it? > > Usenet was a distributed network of computers that transferred > articles amongst themselves using various protocols, and provided > access to readers in various ways (NNTP being one of them). > Usenet *is* still this
> Gmane was not and is not part of that network. It is a single, > stand-alone machine operating as an email list archiver/gateway that > provides access to read/post via NTTP. > It is effectively part of Usenet because the mailing lists it hosts and gateways to its newserver are peered with Usenet. I read several gmane 'lists' via usenet, I most certainly don't get them directly from gmane, I get them from other usenet servers. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
