Advantage of gmane.org?

[Goh Lip]

On 08/09/11 08:34, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp,
>
> In another thread you said:
>
> <qoute>
> However I also post/browse via gmane.org and my email address is not
> mangled (see my headers on this message). So I'm wondering why as the
> gmane.org server doesn't have 'Encode/encrypt' set.
>
> Are you posting via the web interface or nntp?
> </quote>
>
> What is the advantage of using gmane.org rather than list.unbuntu.com?
>

The difference is just in using nntp, a 'usernet' type of newsgroup.

> I dislike web mail so I doubt I would be using the web interface.

And you can use many email clients, (thunderbird, kmail....) too to use 
nntp.