Re: mail vs news

[Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im>]

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Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback. I am considering to go « full NNTP » for all my
>>> mailing-lists needs (as long as it is possible). For example, I know gnu.*
>>> hierarchy offers many groups I regularly read without having to write a line
>>> of sieve script or without subscription.
>>
>>
>> You know about gmane?
>>
>> http://gmane.org/>
>> Almost certainly you do! but worth flagging it up in this thread.
>
> I had a similar setup, but moved back to mailing lists because of
>
> 1) many groups (particularly but not exclusively google groups) I can
> not post to via gmane but I have to use mail. And in many cases, the
> posts to gmane simply disappear in these cases - any suggestions on how
> I can solve this (posting to via mail instead of gmane), and I am likely
> to move back to gmane for all mailing lists

If I understand correctly, you want to automatically switch to a mail-message
when posting on certain gmane groups instead of news-message, right ?
Dunno if it could work but did you try specifying `gnus-parameters' for these
groups ?

> 2) archiving of the posts as a ressource to search is much faster when
> using offline storage of the posts and notmuch for indexing. I can
> search gmane from gnus as well, but I kind of prefer notmuch.

I dropped notmuch entirely; too much « work » to maintain its index and I
always forget the query syntax altogether ;)

- -- Xavier.
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