Re: Gmane

li_sasxsek wrote:
> li [H. S. Teoh] mi tulis la
> > Personally, I lean against doing this, but I'll let Henrik
> > and the rest
> > of the list speak up. I don't like the idea of gateways in
> > general, and
> > we've had bad experiences in the past with Yahoo!  groups.
>
> The Yahoo mirror does have some very annoying features.
Curious. I found the listserv.brown.edu web interface and I thought the list
was hosted there. Why another interface ? For file hosting and other
associated services ?


> > >  As I find newsgroup more usable than mailing lists,
> > >  I would be interested to be able to access Conlang
> > > in this way.
> >
> > Interesting. I find both equally usable. But then again, I do use
> > mutt-ng with NNTP support.
>
> I'd much prefer that all of these be taken over to Usenet.  It's a
> shame alt.language.artificial doesn't get used much anymore.
I prefer newsgroups to mailing list and web interfaces as I can quickly
download what I want when I want and get a nice threaded view of things,
without burdening my inbox.

I'll wait some more before acting. Any other reaction to my Gmane proposal ?

By the way, Gmane also offer importation of archives.


Sincerely,

--
Philippe

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