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Considering its awesome usability, the design can't be that bad. Sure, it might look dated by today's taste but its users don't care when they want to read a specific archived list thread with minimal friction.

Yeah, the web interface is a throwback to the 90s.

Their content outweighs the drawback, though.

I feel the same way. I don't want to diminish the work put into Gmane, but every time I hit a link to Gmane I jump to marc.info and see if I can read the content there.

Still, I continue to be impressed by the amount of work people put into something they care about, while the rest of us just expects it to be there. As some one else pointed out, it really makes you wonder what other kind of one person projects we all use all the time.

And as a counterpoint, every time I hit a link to a Mailman archive, I would jump to gmane and try to find the thread there.