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From: steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 10, 15 yrs ago this newsgroup was *much* larger. What happened?
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Rust Buckett <rust@fakedomain.nope> writes:

> Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> writes:
>
< > "W. Greenhouse" <wgreenhouse@tilde.club> writes:
< >
< >> The Gmane gateway has its own independent subscription. You just post
< >> with some valid mail address in From, and reply (by email) to the autoreply the
< >> system sends out, and after that you can post by news.
< >
< > That depends on the mailing list though. At least the Python mailing
< > list doesn't allow posting via Gmane and they require subscription
< > too. Seems overkill, the list has gone fairly quiet since discussion
< > moved to a forum.
>
> I'd really love to see a move back to Usenet/NNTP. I know Thunderbird has
> builtin support and I imagine other MUAs do as well, so set up wouldn't be too
> technical for most people.
>
> IDK, maybe I'm just being nostalgic.


Also the pan program works well. the speed of NNTP vs email gateway
is a joke. NNTP has been around for a while and seems to be rather
robust. complicated for sure, but why always do people want to throw the
baby out with the bathwater (so to speek).