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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 it |
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> 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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I am currently "subscribed" to 31 mailing lists on GMane. I don't even |
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want to imagine what would happen if I would receive email from all of |
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them (and 90% of the posts would not interest me anyway, so why recieve |
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them in the first place?) It's just not practical. A Usenet-like |
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front-end is the perfect solution here; a mailing list is very similar |
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to a Usenet newsgroup and that's why this approach is the most practical |
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one. And even if I were subscribed to only one list, it would still be |
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the best way to access it; even though the traffic is much lower when |
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compared to 31 lists, but it's still high enough to get annoying with |
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something landing on your inbox every 10 minutes or so, even stuff you |
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don't intend to read. With Usenet, you only get what you're interested |
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in, and you get it in a way that is very easy to access and browse though. |
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