Re: Listing list-managers on gmane

[J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:27:50 -0500 
Michael C Berch <mcb@postmodern.com> wrote:

> I don't see the value of listing or archiving or whatever it is that
> gmane.org offers.

The value of GMane is primarily not to list owners, but to list
readers/members.  GMans gives them:

  a) A potentially compleat spool of all prior posts, searchable in
  standard NNTP fashion.

  b) Ability to use their favourite NNTP client instead of an MUA.  Many
  prefer their netnews clients to MUAs, and find them better featured
  and more flexible.

  c) No or lesser requirement to subscribe to the subject lists.  They
  just add/remove themselves from the matching newsgroups in standard
  netnews fashion. 

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