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[Tim Golden]

On 09/02/2018 15:37, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
> 

Just to head this off at the pass: for the purpose of discussion, could 
we assume that this particular point doesn't really matter, please?

Thanks

TJG