Fritz Whittington wrote:
On or about 2005-02-07 12:59, William Hooper whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:
Michael W. Carney said: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. OTOH, if we all just stopped using the list and just used the newsgroup....
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Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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| And the Really Great Thing [tm] about using the NNTP protocol as a base
| is that there *are* good news-to-mail and news-to-web gateway software
| packages! So if the base is NNTP, you can use a newsreader, mail client,
| or browser (whichever you prefer) to get the messages any way you
like. |
| What's not to like?
Nothing. Let's *PLEASE* to to a fedora-private nntp system for the
fedora community "groups". Using mail lists for the community has been and
continues to be torture.
There are already two ways of viewing this list via NNTP, why do we need another?
As previously mentioned, gmane.org carries the Fedora lists. I also go
reminded (thanks to Pete Zaitcev's Blog) that Red Hat also already runs an
NNTP gateway (news://news.redhat.com/).
Anyone wishing to test a "news-to-web" gateway would do well to start
there tests with one of those two.
Is there any good reason that we continue with the mail list when the newsgroup seems to work so much better? I suppose it depends a little on your connection speed, your ISP (POP3 or IMAP) and your mail/news reader software. But I think it makes a lot more sense to download just the headers and then pick the articles you wish to see, than having to download everything (as in POP3).
Pardon my ignorance, but why are newsgroups so much better? and how do I go abotu accessing the fedora newsgroups?
