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[Chris Green]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:45:29 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >> Please don't waste your time with the gmane website.  Just point any
> >> (semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird at news.gmane.org and you've
> > 
> > Surely you mean NNTP/Usenet client.
> 
> That's what he said :-)
> 
> Thunderbird does both mail and news. Or at least it did, last time I 
> checked.
> 
He said ".....(semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird...."

That seems to imply (to me anyway) that one needs a mail client to
read from news.gmane.org and that's just plain wrong.

While *some* mail clients are also NNTP readers it's by no means
universally true.

-- 
Chris Green
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