NNTP makes more sense than SMTP for group discussions.
No, it doesn't necessarily. NNTP was based for transient discussions rather than discussions that have lasting impact.
I read allmost all OSS mailing lists I participate in through gmane. It kicks major ass.
Two problems I'd have with switching to NNTP exclusively:
- NNTP server admins tend to be very aggressive about deleting messages.
We could take the policy of never deleting messages off *our* news server, but that doesn't allow us to synchronize/use other NNTP hosts. That'd be the major benefit of using NNTP exclusively - people could read the lists on their local NNTP server rather than our private server.
But, if I go away for a week and come back, I could have missed messages that my local Usenet server harvested. That's not acceptable.
- Disconnected support and filtering would be non-existant
There would be no way to read the lists offline unless I install my own NNTP server locally that synchronizes. Uh, no. And, I have to rely on the filtering scheme of the news server rather than my own custom scheme. I have some lists that go to the same mailbox (namely related CVS commits) - not everyone would agree with this filtering scheme. But, it's the way I prefer it.
So, I don't really care if we offer NNTP as well as keeping ezmlm, but if you remove email access, you'll hear my loud screams. -- justin
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