On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 5:38:28 PM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> You again mention that they are "exactly the same" and then mention their
> differences.  If you want to use your storage space duplicating mailing
> list archives, have at it - not everybody wants to do that.  Again, one is
> active the other is passive.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:34 PM John Harris <joh...@splentity.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 6:22:04 AM MST Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > > John you're comparing apples and oranges.  One is active the other is
> > > passive.  One uses your space allocation the other doesn't.
> > 
> > Sorry, what? What space allocation? If you're talking about emails, my
> > Maildir
> > hasn't reached a size over 1 GiB in over two years of being on very high
> > traffic mailing lists, including kernel lists.
> > 
> > The two are *exactly the same*. Clicking on the button makes it so you
> > don't
> > receive notifications about that thread anymore. Additionally, and this
> > covers
> > lists other than Fedora hosted mailing lists, on most clients you can
> > right
> > click the thread and "Ignore", "Delete" or "Create Filter From Thread" and
> > pipe that thread to the trash.
> > 
> > --
> > John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
> > Splentity
> > https://splentity.com/
> > 
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They are exactly the same. On both, clicking the button on the web interface 
causes you to stop getting notifications for it.

The *only* difference is that, on one, you've got the option to mute a thread 
properly, from your mail client.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
Splentity
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