On 2021-05-06, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Pointing a newsreader at news.gmane.io allows one to participate in >> the mailing list just fine without using Usenet. >> > ??? Surely that *is* using Usenet, at least you're using NNTP which > is the Usenet protocol. What's "not Usenet" about it?
Usenet was a distributed network of computers that transferred articles amongst themselves using various protocols, and provided access to readers in various ways (NNTP being one of them). Gmane was not and is not part of that network. It is a single, stand-alone machine operating as an email list archiver/gateway that provides access to read/post via NTTP. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
