Re: My 2nd article with Gnus, about threading...

[Francis Moreau]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 20 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> There're currently a lot of broken things when using newsgroups:
>>
>>   - 'Reference:' field may be rewritten,
>
> In a newsgroups-only scenario it doesn't happen.  The mail<->news is
> the culprit.
>

Since mailing lists are popular (a lot more than news group it seems),
does this scenario exist at all ?

>>   - it takes so much time for an article to reach the news server,
>
> Not really.  Nowadays news propagation is almost instantaneous.

really ?

My articles take once send take a while to reach me. Maybe I choose
a bad news servers (gmane), I dunno.

Francis