Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de> writes:

> * Matthias Julius wrote:
> [Mail vs. News]
>> * A mailing list is easier to distribute with a slow
>>   server/connection. If a mail takes 3 minutes to show up in your
>>   mailbox it doesn't matter. If each news post takes 15 seconds to
>>   load it gets annoying.
>
> Programs like slrnpull and leafnode which supports offline reading
> exist since years.

Yes, but this doesn't mean everybody is using them.  And they require
extra setup for each user.  Not everybody wants to be bothered with
that.

Does anybody have an idea how much difference there would be in server
load for a NNTP server compared to the current Debian mailing list
setup?

Matthias