[Mageia-dev] gmane

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 18:17 +0200, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
> 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.
> 
> 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.
-- 
Michael Scherer