Re: Gmane

On 9/8/06, Philippe Debar <philippe.debar@...> wrote:
> li_sasxsek wrote:
> > li [H. S. Teoh] mi tulis la
> > > 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 ?
Historical reasons, as far as I know. I think the gateway used to be
to eGroups or Onelist or some other such name, which was apparently a
decent enough service, but was bought out by Yahoo at some point.

> I'll wait some more before acting. Any other reaction to my Gmane proposal ?
I use Gmane for a couple of other mailing lists and rather like it.

I probably wouldn't use Gmane for CONLANG-L myself but wouldn't mind
if a mirror existed there. But I can't speak for the group.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>