On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In a newsgroups-only scenario it doesn't happen. The mail<->news
[ gateway ]
>> is the culprit.
>
> Since mailing lists are popular (a lot more than news group it seems),
> does this scenario exist at all ?
Which scenario?
>> Not really. Nowadays news propagation is almost instantaneous.
>
> really ?
Yes.
> My articles take once send take a while to reach me. Maybe I choose
> a bad news servers (gmane), I dunno.
As others already have explained, Gmane is a special case since it
carries only mailing list, no usenet newsgroups. Articles appear only
after Gmane receives them from the mailing list.
This group/list is even more special because it is:
(a) a newsgroup in the gnu.* hierarchy: gnu.emacs.gnus
(b) a mailing list on gnu.org: info-gnus-english
There is a bidirectional mail<->news gateway between (a) and (b).
(c) The Gmane group gmane.emacs.gnus.user receives/sends articles
from/to the mailing list (b).
So if you post through Gmane, your article is propagated like this:
GW——> gnu.emacs.gnus
gmane.e.g.user ————> Gmane ————> MLM ———|
——> Gmane ————> gmane.e.g.user
(GW = gateway, MLM = mailing list management software)
If someone post via a usenet server:
gnu.emacs.gnus ——GW——> MLM ————> Gmane ————> gmane.e.g.user
Bye, Reiner.
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