Usenet vs. Mailing-list

[Grant Edwards]

On 2023-01-28, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> As far as I am aware the mirroring of the Python mailing list on
> comp.lan.python works perfectly.  I love gmane! :-)

If gmane stopped working, I'd have to retire and give up on computers.

I supposed I might be able to hammer procmail and mutt into something
tolerable, but slrn pointed at gmane works wonderfully without any
futzing.

NNTP and newsreaders are designed specifically for the task to which
people have coopted e-mail into via mailing lists.

--
Grant