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On 02/23/2010 03:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:48 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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 |
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>> practical one. And even if I were subscribed to only one list, it |
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>> would still be the best way to access it; even though the traffic is |
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>> much lower when compared to 31 lists, but it's still high enough to get |
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>> annoying with something landing on your inbox every 10 minutes or so, |
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>> even stuff you don't intend to read. With Usenet, you only get what |
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>> you're interested in, and you get it in a way that is very easy to |
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>> access and browse though. |
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> With the downside being that the process is slower, as you have to |
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> download each message or thread as you want to read it. Contrast this |
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> with having email delivered whether you are reading it or not and being |
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> filtered at the moment of arrival so it is instantly available, sorted |
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> into folders, when you start up your client. However, this convenience |
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> uses more bandwidth, so if that is worth more to you than your time, using |
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> Usenet for selective reading does make sense. |
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No, each message gets downloaded in under 1 second; it immediately |
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appears when you click on it. It's blindingly fast. No surprise |
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though, since it's just text. However, downloading thousands of |
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messages per day that I don't intent to read is a waste of bandwidth. |
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It's not so much about time, it's about volume. |
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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, need to unsubscribe when you don't want to receive email |
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anymore, 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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and probably more I can't think of right now. |
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So in the end, we end up doing the same thing, by I do it in a saner way |
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that was designed to do exactly that. :) It appears it only has pros |
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and no cons, so I don't see a reason to use email instead. |