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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reply to list [was: Different key maps in different dired buffers]
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 13:28:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zir0j5fi.fsf@quux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1t4ciuwh.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:05:01 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Gmane actually *does* allow posting trough a web interface.  However, I
>>> doubt that anyone uses it — it’s pretty ugly, imho, and requires solving
>>> a captcha.
>>
>> Really?  I thought most people that used Gmane used it for posting
>> through their interface.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  But I expect that most users of Gmane use
> it as an NNTP server.  They probably do use it for reading *and*
> posting, but the web-interface for posting via Gmane is probably *much*
> less frequently used than the NNTP-interface.

Well, in terms of most *people* Bob is probably right.  Consider a
random passerby who came to http://comments.gmane.org from Google search
and decided to post a comment — he clicked ‘reply’, entered something,
solved captcha, clicked ‘post’, and never came back.  He might not even
realized that it was a mailing list, but +1 person to users of Gmane.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-05 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-26  8:14 Different key maps in different dired buffers Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26  9:06 ` tomas
2016-05-26 12:25   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 12:37     ` tomas
2016-05-26 14:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-26 15:05   ` Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26 15:24     ` Drew Adams
2016-05-26 17:46     ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-05-26 17:59       ` Whitfield Diffie
2016-05-26 18:05         ` Drew Adams
2016-05-27  7:09           ` Reply to list [was: Different key maps in different dired buffers] tomas
2016-05-27  8:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-27 16:46               ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-27 18:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-03 23:38                   ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.787.1464997128.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04  1:40                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04  2:12                       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.789.1465006376.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04  2:51                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 15:52                           ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-04 19:41                             ` Bob Proulx
2016-06-04 19:48                               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-06  2:57                                 ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                                 ` <mailman.953.1465181882.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06  3:11                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 20:05                               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-05 10:28                                 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
     [not found]                             ` <mailman.857.1465069271.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-05 12:44                               ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-05 13:35                                 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-06  3:29                                   ` Bob Proulx
2016-06-08 11:43                                     ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-06-09 23:35                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-16  0:45                                       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1575.1466037955.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-16  5:24                                         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                                   ` <mailman.955.1465183780.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06  6:20                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-06 22:03                                       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.1023.1465250629.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-06 22:55                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-04 17:30                           ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.837.1465055573.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04 18:35                             ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-05 11:00                               ` Dmitry Alexandrov
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.895.1465124454.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-05 23:29                                 ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.850.1465061448.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-04 19:04                             ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-27 11:42             ` Whitfield Diffie

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