Re: aioe (was: Re: Is there a problem with Gmane at the moment?)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Emanuel Berg posted on Mon, 16 May 2016 00:43:57 +0200 as excerpted:

> OK, let's see if I understand it:
> 
> If Gmane does it, altho one server is down, by crossposting to a group
> associated with another server, that is up, all Gmane users still get it
> in the group associated with the server, that is down!
> 
> However if the client does it, it only works for people that also
> subscribe to the group associated with the server, that is up!
> 
> But what about all other people? They don't get it.
> So perhaps this method isn't that good as the post only reach a subset
> of the group's subscribers.
> 
> Perhaps better to wait for the down server to resurface?

Correct... AFAIK, anyway.

(I have some experience with news and of course mail and have read and I 
believe understood at a non-implementor's level anyway, many of the news 
and mail RFCs, but I'm not a dev and thus obviously haven't actually 
implemented my own news clients or servers, neither am I a gmane admin so 
I don't have any behind the scenes knowledge there, but with those 
caveats, yes, I believe your summary to be correct as a high-level 
description. =:^)

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