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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:38:04 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't send people to mid.gmane.org
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:07:35 +0000
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

> I seem to remember it working at some point afterwards, but
> maybe I'm mistaken.
> 
> Fortunately, nntp://news.gmane.org/20180323125048.3a3c8864@lwn.net
> still seems to work.  How about that?

I kind of suspect an nntp:// link will not be useful to a whole lot of
people in these barbaric times.  Certainly it's better than a
guaranteed-useless link, so it's a step in the right direction, though.

Thanks,

jon