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On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:51:36 Al wrote: |
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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 |
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> > mailing 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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Per project, per list, per desktop... |
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That becomes quite a lot of work. |
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And there is at least one click to get to the subscribe-list. |
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Then at least one click per list (or once for "select all"?) |
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Then at least one click to confirm. |
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Am counting 3 clicks here at least. And multiply that with all the desktops |
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and projects. |
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As opposed to configuring one IMAP-server per desktop and 1 webpage to remember |
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for the webmail. |
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> > Usenet's strength was that all news-groups were accessible through all |
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> > news- 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 It has been replaced by |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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I never considered usenet to be a social network. |
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We had chat-software for that. |
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(And no, I am not talking about ICQ, that came later) |
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> > By using different news-servers for different projects, this advantage is |
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> > 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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How do you search through a newsserver without having to download all the |
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messages in their entirety? |
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The error-message someone might be trying to resolve may not even be in the |
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subject, but in one of the replies. |
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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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Once per mailing list and the filters are included in my backups. |
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If I need to reinstall a desktop for whatever reason, I need to re-add all the |
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news-servers and news-groups... |
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> > And I am not aware of any news-reader that can handle multiple different |
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> > news- servers easily without a news-proxy like leafnode sitting in |
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> > between. |
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> Thunderbird. There is no limit to severs you can subscribe to. |
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And can these all be listed in the same list as my email? |
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My email is sorted as such: |
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INBOX |
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|-Maillists |
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|-project |
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|- list |
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Can thunderbird, or any other news-reader, plug the news-group-feed into my |
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email like that? |
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In the summary-page, I can easily view how many new messages there are per |
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mailing list, I am used to working like that. |
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But, like Norman Rieß said, if you want to maintain a news server that is |
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fully synchronised with the mailing lists, I don't think anyone would try to |
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stop you. |
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