[leafnode-list] Re: The leafnode mailing list has moved!

[Chris Green]

Carlos E. R. via leafnode-list <leafnode-list at leafnode.org> wrote:
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> On 10/04/2021 18.15, Matthias Andree via leafnode-list wrote:
> > Am 10.04.21 um 14:12 schrieb Chris Green via leafnode-list:
> >>>> Well it's helped me.  I didn't realise the leafnode list was on
> >>>> Usenet, and now I'm here! :-)
> >>> AFAIK, Gmane is not Usenet.
> >>>
> >> Oh yes it is - to some extent anyway.  What gmane does is gateway
> >> quite a lot of mailing lists to Usenet.  The leafnode list is one of
> >> these.  I hadn't realised that it was gatewayed to Usenet until this
> >> recent discussion, now I know and can use the rather better interface
> >> that my newsreader provides (as opposed to reading the list as mail).
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> > I'd also say that GMANE is not Usenet. Just because you can access it by
> > newsreader does not mean it's Usenet. It lacks the distributed nature
> > and peering.
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> That's right. It is not on the Usenet network, it just uses nntp 
> technology. A private news server, thus not Usenet.
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It's a part of Usenet though.  I don't use a 'gmane nntp server'
directly, I get the gmane newsgroups from one of the two Usenet
servers that I use - News.Individual.NET and news.eternal-september.org.

So gmane isn't Usenet but it's definitely part of it as its NNTP
server peers with other NNTP servers which is how Usenet works.
I.e. it's as much a part of Usenet as any other peering NNTP server.

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Chris Green
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