I've been dreading this moment for a couple years: it looks like gmane.org is gone. The original operator/maintainer gave up a couple years ago and pulled the plug. Somebody else took over at that point. The Web UI was never revived, but the basic NNTP<->mailing-list gateway continue to work -- until tonight. Now the domain is gone. Perhaps it's just an oversight, but I've got a bad feeling...
I really, really prefer using slrn and an NNTP server to follow mailing lists, and I was using gmane to follow about a dozen of them (including the Python list). At least for python, there's still a Usenet gateway. Unfortunately, that's not true for any of the other lists that I used to follow on gmane.org. Does anybody have any idea what it would take to set up a private NNTP server that served articles from a dozen or so IMAP mailboxes? How hard would it be to write something like that in Python? I've got a pretty good handle on the IMAP end of things, but I've got no clue about the NNTP server end. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
