[Mageia-dev] gmane

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/6/14 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:09:23 +0200
> Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at 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.

Well, a platform is only as good as it copes with heavy traffic. You
should have seen the first weeks after the announcement last
September/October - that's when I tested. :)

> 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.

We are talking about gateways between GUIs and mailing lists, so I did
not test how the nntp gateway works.

-- 
wobo