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On 13 Apr 2013 17:18, David Gibbs wrote:
Folks:

Please be aware ... Yahoo is, once again, delaying mail for no
apparent reason.

If you are a subscriber, and you EVER get this message, I highly
recommend you change to GMail as soon as possible.

<<SNIP>>

Those using news://news.midrange.com can safely ignore that message because it is not applicable to NNTP users? Because /subscriber/ in that context refers to the subscribers to the digests and\or individual messages rather than to the subscribers to [only] the "News-Access", and the delay affects only receiving messages sent *from* @midrange *to* @yahoo rather than affecting messages sent *from* @yahoo *to* @midrange.?

I am fairly confident the answer to both questions is "Yes." And therefore anyone using NNTP as their means to receive messages instead of using *any* email provider as their means to receive messages, can remain happy with their choice of NNTP over email. That would be just one more confirmation of my bias in choosing to use the NNTP via news://news.midrange.com over the mailing list. I purposely included the link twice, for those who are [still] not familiar with NNTP; see http://news.midrange.com for more information. Sadly, probably many companies still block NNTP :-( even while allowing HTTP. However...

FWiW gmane.org shadows some of the lists on midrange.com and that organization also offers an HTTP gateway to NNTP to access their copies of the messages as well as an NNTP news server. To get a list of email lists available from @midrange:
http://gmane.org/find.php?list=%40midrange

For this list, the midrange-l, the descriptive page is found here:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange

The first link on that page is to web\HTTP access in a browser, presented in NewsReader-like interface, in a /threaded/ view, albeit poorly IMO, and not well-ordered [what its numbered groups of messages has no correlation presented], with no apparent sort capability. I use a client-based NewsReader [Thunderbird], so I have no experience using that /web/ interface. I just figured it may be worth knowing, to somebody; esp. if there is no NNTP access and non-receipt of messages is suspect:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange

The second link on that descriptive page is a link to the unthreaded view; what is called a /blog-like/ view, divided into years, months, days, and then pages within a day. That data is what also causes the messages on the archive to be visible in duplicate from their site when using a web search that is not specific to the site:midrange.com. But IMO, the messages from there have much better formatting [with a few quirks; e.g. "@" converted to "<at>"] than those on the midrange archive. Note: Changing to the unthreaded view can be requested via the pull-down on the upper right of the page while on the threaded view:
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange


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