I've seen this subject before, but never really got any answer. PHP have news server at news.php.net but it is 'always' down and it is only a mailing list mirror, so some messages get lost or get 'out of thread'.
I dont have to say that you will save your self, and to us, subscribers a lot of bandwidth. I host my own mail server and e-mail is charged even if I dont read it. If I read newsgroups, i will download headers only and than messages I want to red. This way you will save at least 30% bandwidth because many people would download only messages they want to read. Now you have to mail every subscriber.
If somebody still prefer mailing lists, you can easily create news->ezmlm gateway, but focus is that NNTP is the primary way to communicate (and to have good news server, not the broken one like now. I bet that current mailing list server can host double subscribers news server).
What do other subscribers think?
TNX and sorry for bad English.
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