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On Tuesday 07 September 2010 11:56:12 Al wrote: |
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> It would be as simple as this: |
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> 1.) enter "news.gentoo.org" as news server to thunderbird |
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> 2.) select the groups you want to read |
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> 2 steps not more. That is far more simple than subscribing to a mailing |
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> list. |
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> Al |
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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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Usenet's strength was that all news-groups were accessible through all news- |
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servers. |
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By using different news-servers for different projects, this advantage is gone. |
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Using mailing lists and IMAP, I can access the list from anywhere with an |
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internet connection using webmail, IMAP-clients,... |
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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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With different news-groups, this list becomes too much to remember and |
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maintain. |
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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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