On 02/25/2010 11:45 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this
mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and
email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both.
Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to read
it in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more simple?
No, because then I would get all the mail in my inbox and I would be the
one responsible for filtering it; a total waste on bandwidth and my
time. GMane does that for me instead.
Just to make my point more clear:
http://i50.tinypic.com/15ow2g8.png
OT: It occured to me that many, including you, have this awfully fuzzy font
rendering. Aren’t you bothered by that? (Assuming you’re on a TFT). When I
look at your image, my view starts floating on a plane in front of the screen.
See http://i47.tinypic.com/1zxsbok.png
No, actually I find it much better then the one in your screenshot.
Much easier to read for me. I guess this is due to differences in our
monitor's DPI. I can image that lower DPI monitors must show it pretty
"zoomed-in" and therefore blurry. The fonts in your screenshot actually
look like small, thin lines instead of proper fonts here.
As you can see, I’m also using a mail client for those lists. At the
beginning, I used my Uni’s news server, but at some point, I couldn’t post to
this list anymore through NNTP. So I had to switch to mail interface.
But even though local archiving works better with mails (articles are gone
from the news server after a short while), I’d prefer the NNTP way though,
it’s easier to view the list filtered (e.g. no ignored threads).
For what it's worth, GMane's NNTP server never deletes messages. In the
case of gentoo-user, everything's still there; the oldest posts date
back to 2002.
