NNTP instead of mail

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 16:27 +0000, Chris Blackburn wrote: Actually, I don't think I've seen it - mind you I missed the period of time when the list was split, so maybe it got talked about then. How well do most newsreaders cope with multiple servers though? That'd be my main gripe, having to select different servers depending on what I wanted to read / pull down to local disk for archival. I have no idea how load on an NNTP server compares to load on an SMTP server. It's maybe more spread out with NNTP? Interesting question though - I can't really think of any downsides other than: 1) Multiple server issues mentioned above 2) The mailing list works. If it ain't broke, don't fix it etc. - given the amount of time / money / resources that Jay's put into the list, I expect there'd have to be a big incentive to change. I'm not sure what NNTP would give you over and above what the mailing list already does? 3) Some people don't have NNTP access. Seriously. I've seen braindead companies who don't consider usenet to be a good resource and block the port at the firewall (despite usenet being IME a quicker way of getting a resolution to a specific problem than the web) cheers J.