On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:30:02 +0200, Ben Burdette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I still don't understand why groups choose mailing lists over > newsgroups. Usenet was an almost 30 years old attempt at implementing what's currently solved by mailing lists, subject to those days' technological requirements and constraints. It's currently obsoleted by mailing lists providing exactly the same on a better technological basis. NNTP is an underdefined protocol with a vast number of features, of which servers and clients support arbitrary subsets, and most of which have lost their value with the development of communications. Some parts of NNTP are still impossible to get “right” because they aren't specified, e.g. international characters in headers. The only two real features that NNTP has and mailing lists don't are the ability to access older messages through the client timmediately after subscribing (that is supposed to be solved by the often overlooked feature of IMAP: shared folders) and the ability to cancel a message after sending it (something that is a bit unfair and shouldn't be possible in the first place). All other “features”, like the often mentioned “kill files”, are actually features of clients, not the protocol, and are also found in good email clients. > By default you just download the headers without having to get the text > of every message, You can do that with IMAP, which is the modern protocol for accessing your mail. > you can subscribe and unsubscribe from them without impacting your > regular email account. If you insist on ML subscriptions being on a separate account, you can have another email account for that. How is having one email account and one NNTP account better than having two email accounts? -- Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
