Fritz Whittington said: > On or about 2005-02-07 14:00, William Hooper whipped out a trusty #2 > pencil and scribbled: > >> Fritz Whittington said: >> [snip] >> >> >> >>> Agreed. The only problem with the gmane.org news is that it doesn't >>> seem to propagate postings to it backwards to the list, only from the >>> list to the newsgroup. >>> >>> >> >> Oh? >> >> >> http://gmane.org/post.php >> >> >> > Posted to it twice this last week. Never got any email from them. (And > of course, they never showed up on the list.) Perhaps att.net has them > blacklisted. That would be a issue to explore. As Robert demonstrated earlier, it works. >> Gmane doesn't have a seperate "newsgroup", it just mirrors list >> traffic. >> > Looks like a duck, walks like a duck.... But it does neither. > If everyone here posted to/read > from the "newsgroup", then it wouldn't matter if anyone actually read the > list. As far as I can tell, you don't have to be subscribed to the list > to post there. You must be subscribed to the list for your post to go to the list (and then show up on gmane). > Perhaps my real point is: mailing lists are fine for a relatively small > number of people with reasonably low volume. I guess someone forgot to tell the linux-kernel ml, too. > I think the number/volume we > have here is more than enough to justify a newsgroup. With a good mailer (threading, filtering), there isn't much difference, other than what protocol you use to receive the messages. And with gmane, you have the choice of using NNTP already. -- William Hooper
