Re: [IBMiOSS] This list is now active on gmane.org as gmane.comp.systems.ibmi.opensource

Good to know. I just now signed up for a digg.com account to see how the
gmane rss feed works in there. Learn something new every day.

Did I mention I miss the Google Dashboard home page they EOL'd a number of
years ago? Man, that was so slick for aggregation. Still haven't found a
replacement.

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/21/2016 10:29 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

Just curious, what does gmane offer that archive.midrange.com doesn't?
Or
maybe a better question, why do people like it? I am intrigued because of
the reasons the author gives for creating it (trying to solve similar
issues of communication).

As David said, gmane offers NNTP access, so we can use a newsreader to
follow the list (I use Thunderbird). I haven't seen any web forum interface
or email mechanism that's as convenient as a newsreader for following a
forum or mailing list.

Using a newsreader is more a replacement for getting posts through email
than a replacement for the archive. I guess following the mailing list
solely through the archive can work, using the date index and thread
indexes, but when I had to do that recently due to gmane being down, it
felt quite awkward.

Thanks David!

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Barbara


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