Re: Best way to receive netbsd.org list messages?

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Thomas Mueller <mueller6723%twc.com@localhost> wrote:
> Thomas Mueller <mueller6723%twc.com@localhost> wrote:
>         
>> Do I do better to [...] use gmane with NNTP software?  There are
>> NNTP packages for Linux, *BSD, Haiku, even DOS (let's not forget
>> mutt).
> [...]
>> ... but somebody might be able to say how they fare with gmane.
> 
>> I've been using gmane nntp for a long time now to read a lot of netbsd
>> (and not only) mailing lists and I'm quite happy with it.
> 
>> The important part of the setup for me is that news/tin can cache
>> overviews.  That speeds things up *a lot*.  Over the years I've tried
>> to look at other newsreaders, but the delay of entering a group is
>> simply unbearable.  I guess I'm stuck with tin, but I'm sort of gotten
>> used to in the past 25 years anyway.
> 
>> -uwe
> 
> Now it looks like gmane is nonfunctional or at least very undependable.
> 
> I visited their website, also tried to browse messages from the news
> link on http://www.netbsd.org/mailinglists/ , got blank pages.

Those links looks broken indeed, but NNTP does work.  E.g. if you look
at the headers of this message you can see it was sent via gmane's
NNTP.

-uwe