Gmane seems to be gone

[Michelle Konzack]

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Am 2018-02-18 hackte Grant Edwards in die Tasten:
> I've been dreading this moment for a couple years: it looks like
> gmane.org is gone.  The original operator/maintainer gave up a couple
> years ago and pulled the plug. Somebody else took over at that point.
> The Web UI was never revived, but the basic NNTP<->mailing-list gateway
> continue to work -- until tonight.  Now the domain is gone.  Perhaps
> it's just an oversight, but I've got a bad feeling...
>
> I really, really prefer using slrn and an NNTP server to follow
> mailing lists, and I was using gmane to follow about a dozen of them
> (including the Python list).  At least for python, there's still a
> Usenet gateway.  Unfortunately, that's not true for any of the other
> lists that I used to follow on gmane.org.
>
> Does anybody have any idea what it would take to set up a private NNTP
> server that served articles from a dozen or so IMAP mailboxes?
>
> How hard would it be to write something like that in Python?  I've got
> a pretty good handle on the IMAP end of things, but I've got no clue
> about the NNTP server end.


Thanks in advance

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Michelle Konzack        Miila ITSystems @ TDnet
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