Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2010-06-04, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote: >> Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 06/05/10 04:19, John Bokma wrote: >>>> Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: >>>> >>>>> But the really sad thing is that you think that "bigger" automatically >>>>> equals "better". >>>> >>>> I don't think that was the point. >>>> >>>> Anyway, not everbody can pick a provider, there are plenty of places >>>> that have only one or maybe two. And if that's the choice and neither >>>> carries Usenet you have to pay for Usenet like I do. Note that I >>>> consider it well worth the 10 euros I pay for it. >>> >>> Isn't gmane available where you live? I've used gmane for newsgroups >>> that my local server doesn't carry. The only problem is that there's a >>> slight delay in opening new posts (0.5 seconds or so). >> >> I am aware of Gmane [1] but in their own words: "Gmane is a mailing list >> archive.", so it's not Usenet. It's a Usenet server which provides >> access to mailing lists. (A very cool idea). > > No, it's not a Usenet server.
OK, it's an NNTP server, but on the other hand I think one can argue that an NNTP server also implies Usenet since Usenet doesn't imply that all groups available on Usenet should be available, nor does it imply -- like you already mentioned below (snipped) -- how exactly that data arrives or that is has to be complete. Since this posting ends up on Gmane, I think it's correct to call Gmane part of Usenet, and hence, they're running a Usenet server. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
