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On 02/23/2010 05:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> You and I do the same thing in the end. The difference is that you |
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>> waste bandwidth, need to set up filters every time you subscribe to a |
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>> new list |
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> Which takes about ten seconds usually. |
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10 is more than 0 :D |
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>> , need to unsubscribe when you don't want to receive email |
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>> anymore, |
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> Which takes about half that time, and both of these are infrequent |
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> occurrences. For lists that I had only a transient interest in, I would |
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> look at usenet versions. |
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And when later you want to subscribe again... |
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>> need hard disk space to store all the downloaded messages, |
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>> don't have access to messages from the time you weren't subscribed yet, |
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> No, but I do have access to Google :) |
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Yes, but this requires to go to Google. I have the messages right there |
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in front of me. |
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>> So in the end, we end up doing the same thing, by I do it in a saner |
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>> way that was designed to do exactly that. :) |
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> No, you do it in a different way that suits your needs. That doesn't make |
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> you right and people with other needs wrong. It just illustrates the |
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> benefits of choice. I did not insult your choice, why assume that you |
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> know better than me what I need? |
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No, that wasn't my intention. All I'm saying in the end is that people |
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stick to the ways they are used to do their tasks. There might be |
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better options out there, but it requires getting used to those new |
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options so they usually don't bother. I just though I'd mention the |
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stuff here so people actually know the option exists and has saved me |
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from quite some annoyances I had to deal with in the past. |
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>> It appears it only has |
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>> pros and no cons, so I don't see a reason to use email instead. |
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> How do you read messages without an Internet connection? |
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> Everything has pros and cons. |
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You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem |
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doesn't mean no else does either. |
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