> > Yes, me for one, a good newsreader is really a wonderful way to manage > > technical 'lists' like this one. > > IMO, there's nothing better. Newsreaders were designed from the > beginning to deal with the sort of traffic and usage patterns seen in > mailing lists. Using an MUA (even combined with something like > procmail) and folders/labels is just a pale imitation of a good > newsreader. > > > Usenet news is still very much alive though a minority interest now > > I suspect. > > This list's decision to stop accepting postings via news.gmane.io is > what prompted me to write my own "inews" application in Python that > uses SMTP for some groups and NNTP for others when I "post" via slrn. > > I probably use NNTP more to access mailing lists via gmane than I use > it for accessing the "real" Usenet groups. > > NNTP is not just for Usenet...
I asked this question in February and got the same response. But on news.software.readers 16 May, Ted Heise posted a useful perl script. I'm starting to think I'll move to Perl for Usenet posting; I have yet to find a Python solution easy enough for this non-technical user. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
