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On 02/25/2010 11:45 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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>> On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this |
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>>>>> mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and |
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>>>>> email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both. |
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>>>> Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to read |
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>>>> it in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more simple? |
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>>> No, because then I would get all the mail in my inbox and I would be the |
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>>> one responsible for filtering it; a total waste on bandwidth and my |
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>>> time. GMane does that for me instead. |
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>> Just to make my point more clear: |
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>> http://i50.tinypic.com/15ow2g8.png |
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> OT: It occured to me that many, including you, have this awfully fuzzy font |
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> rendering. Aren’t you bothered by that? (Assuming you’re on a TFT). When I |
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> look at your image, my view starts floating on a plane in front of the screen. |
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> See http://i47.tinypic.com/1zxsbok.png |
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No, actually I find it much better then the one in your screenshot. |
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Much easier to read for me. I guess this is due to differences in our |
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monitor's DPI. I can image that lower DPI monitors must show it pretty |
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"zoomed-in" and therefore blurry. The fonts in your screenshot actually |
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look like small, thin lines instead of proper fonts here. |
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> As you can see, I’m also using a mail client for those lists. At the |
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> beginning, I used my Uni’s news server, but at some point, I couldn’t post to |
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> this list anymore through NNTP. So I had to switch to mail interface. |
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> But even though local archiving works better with mails (articles are gone |
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> from the news server after a short while), I’d prefer the NNTP way though, |
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> it’s easier to view the list filtered (e.g. no ignored threads). |
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For what it's worth, GMane's NNTP server never deletes messages. In the |
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case of gentoo-user, everything's still there; the oldest posts date |
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back to 2002. |