Re: Update your news reader to point to news.gmane.io

Torsten Bronger <[email protected]> writes:

> My own data point is the following: It has been a long time since I
> got interested in a project that offered a mailing list, so I am
> only subscribed to a few old ones that are still active.  I could
> subscribe to them directly if Gmane went down.

Yeah, the same here.  I still read the same dozens of mailing lists
through Gmane, but I haven't signed up for any new ones in a while.

> I am pretty sure though that if someone wants to maintain Gmane
> further, it must be done thoroughly.  In particular, there must be a
> way to add new lists, and the permlinks to postings must resolve.
> There needs to be an admin team that can do the manual work.  I
> think it is better to have no service at all than a dysfunctional
> and waning one.

Yup.

But the question about what to do next is two-fold: We have something
that has to be done over the next week (un/resubscribing under the
gmane-mx.org domain, or just letting it all go), and then the long-term
issue of what to do about it all.

Un/resubscribing leaves more options for the long term, so I'm inclined
to lean that way.  But then again, I'm a procrastinator. 

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