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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 16:55 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> FWIW, I prefer newsgroups and thus use gmane.org to follow most of my |
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> mailing lists as newsgroups. Couple that with news profiles that pan |
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> (the main gtk app I still use) remembers per group, and I don't have to |
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> worry about using the wrong address. Of course, news has always been |
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> somewhat obscure, unlike mail, so it's not a solution for everyone, but |
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> it works for me. =8^) |
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Are you talking about Usenet newsgroups? Usenet is a service I expected |
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to die a natural death _years_ ago! Talk about an Internet service that |
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doesn't scale well ....! Used to be that every ISP that wanted to |
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provide Usenet to its customers had to have at least one mondo computer |
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with mondo hard drives, plus a mondo feed, so that they could keep a |
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_local_ copy of every newsgroup to which their customers wanted to |
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subscribe as it came down the pike. I understand that its gotten a bit |
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more centralized now. |
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My "wrong address" is a holdover from my use of Tagged Message Delivery |
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Agent on my mail server for my email. Special email addresses, e.g. |
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"fmouse-gentoo@×××.com", were exempted from TMDA processing. I don't |
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use TMDA anymore and really ought to change my subscriptions. I have a |
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lot of "ought to"s here and a severe shortage of round tuits :-) |
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> > I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to |
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> > be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software |
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> > design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot |
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> > of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff |
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> > just got abandoned. |
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> That was always my feeling too. GNOME 1 had some promise, just as KDE 2 |
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> did, but GNOME 2 went one way and KDE 3 went another... and I preferred |
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> KDE. KDE 4 has yet to prove itself either way. At minimum, they botched |
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> the rollout there. While I'll often run bleeding edge betas, 4.0 was |
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> early alpha, there were simply too many missing features to be usable |
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> here. 4.1 is supposed to be much better. I'll see, when it comes out. |
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> I still believe they'll get there, but given 4.0, I'm not at all sure |
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> about 4.1. It may well be 4.2 or even 4.3 before it's actually worth |
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I see that Gentoo is stable at KDE 3.5.9, which I have as an alternative |
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from my gdm login (and which my desktop just spent many hours |
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re-emerging). I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the encouragement. |
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I do note that KDE ebuilds seldom if ever crap during a build, which is |
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not always true with gnome ebuilds. |
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Question: Can I run Evolution on KDE? the gnome people kind of adopted |
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Evolution, like they absorbed Eautilus, from Ximian. I have a lot of |
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time and work involved in setting up my mail and contact data which I |
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doubt would translate to Kontact/KMail without additional substantial |
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work. Does Kontact support address collections on an LDAP server? |
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