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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by magicalhippo on Friday September 26, 2025 @06:29PM (#45391645)
Yeah it died off sadly. Had so many good news discussions back then. Still miss the buzz of downloading a new batch of messages.

I used Gmane[1] to access mailing lists as newsgroups, which I've always thought was a much better fit.

Alas as with all good things that was shut down also.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane

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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by clircle on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:14PM (#45392976)
News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.
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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by magicalhippo on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:44PM (#45393075)
Ah, thanks. I knew there were issues, but somehow missed they'd resolved it.

A great service, glad to see it alive and kicking!

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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by pasc1878 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @03:44AM (#45393896)
They have not resolved the big issue.

news.gmane.io has always worked.

The issue is that the owner of that domain made a mistake and gave the control of the web frontend to someone else who just shut it down.

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