Kurt Hackenberg writes: > >You can use them, but you are dependent on the mail <-> news gateway at > >Stanford (the same one that all gnu newsgroups use) functioning properly. > >Our newsgroup is no more deprecated than any other gnu newsgroup. > > So that gateway doesn't work? Why not? Did it ever work?
It probably works 80-90% of the time. But, when it goes down, it goes down for a long period of time, until somebody notices and complains and somebody pays attention to it. Even when it is working, messages seem to take a long time to go through the gateway. It is possible that the gateway was written locally and hasn't been kept up over the years. The mail <-> gmane gateway, on the other hand, is pretty much perfect. So, those of us that don't want to use the mailing-list can simply use gmane, and the problem is solved. Cheers, Uday
