Re: [Q]: How good is gmane for you ?

[deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov)]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:32:11 +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> I am subscribed to tons of mailing lists and fetching all my mails is
> getting longer and longer now (result in something to about 45minutes
> every day). So I am looking at alternatives to the traditional mailing
> lists and gmane seems to be the only one solution.

1. AFAIK, it's so. But if you're subscribed to the lists, where spam
   takes a large amount of traffic, using gmane for them is the thing, I
   wouldn't recommend. Local spamassassin does help me much better, then
   Gmane spam filtering (yeah, I know, I can ``report as spam'' and
   such -- but using a dial-up it's really not comfortable).

2. I believe, switching to Gmane won't save you time, while fetching
   your mail. Likely it'd be vice versa, because your mailbox is
   supposed to be closer to you -- and faster (if it isn't so, you
   _really_ should change the e-mail provider).

> Can you post here your solution to help me setup this as soon as
> possible ? Is gnus agent feature a good solution when using gmane or
> should I disable it (partially or totally) ?

I have always recommended setting up a local newsserver. E.g. Leafnode
is very easy to set up and really fits for dial-up or alike.

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