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2010/9/7 J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>: |
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> Except that then I need to do these 2 steps all the time and for every mailing |
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> list that I use. |
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Only once for the news groups of gentoo. Only one click to subscribe |
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to a second group. |
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> Usenet's strength was that all news-groups were accessible through all news- |
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> servers. |
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Usenet was the sozial network of the past. It has been replaced by |
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something better in that function. |
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> By using different news-servers for different projects, this advantage is gone. |
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Usenet is gone. The advantage of a projects newsserver is something |
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very different. Easy to subcribe to and a full knowledge database of |
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all discussions without switching to a browser. The problem is that |
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people didn't learn how to do that at all. |
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> This way, I only need to subscribe to mailing lists once and only need to |
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> remember one set of account-details. |
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But you have to set up filters for that account. |
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> With different news-groups, this list becomes too much to remember and |
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> maintain. |
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news.*.org is possible to remember even for me -- and I am really bad in this. |
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> And I am not aware of any news-reader that can handle multiple different news- |
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> servers easily without a news-proxy like leafnode sitting in between. |
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Thunderbird. There is no limit to severs you can subscribe to. |
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