[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2010-02-23, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:33:56 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> No, I read them from a number of machines but using a single
>>> server that handles all the filtering too.  
>> 
>> Same here -- the only difference between the two approaches is
>> who's administering the server.  You handle it yourself, I let
>> gmane do it.  :)
>
> The main difference is that mine still works when my Internet
> connection is not available.

I read the mailing lists from many different locations. I don't
keep complete Usenet and mailing-list archives at all machines
and locations.  It doesn't really matter to me where the server
is -- if I've no network access, I can't read Usenet or mailing
lists.  But, it's just not an issue.

> And that all my mail is accessible from the same place,
> including mails I'd never put on a server owned by someone
> else.

I guess I just have no interest in keeping archives of 50
newsgroups/mailing-lists on a handful of different machines.
Any "servers" I set up would be a lot less reliable and
accessible than those at either Gmane or my Usenet provider.

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