On 23/04/2010, at 3:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Topic: Is there usenet interface possible for this group?
Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> Apr 22 10:27AM -0700 ^
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:41 AM, dorayme wrote:
> Would that help with the digest I get? As for not getting digest and
> getting all the posts, I have tried that and I really don't like
it (I
> can explain the reasons if you like).
No it wouldn't help, not with digests.
What you seem to want is to get all the posts separately without
getting all the posts separately.
I guess!
What would further reduce the clunk factor is if you could select the
post from the digest that you want to reply to and hit reply and the
subject line is the relevant one instead of having to fish for it and
paste it in.
Recently, I don't know if anyone noticed, there have been
improvements: now one can click a list item in the "Topic Summary" at
the start of the digest and go to the post in the below. Good! Never
used to happen before.
And another improvement, when you hit reply to the digest, you do not
get a no-reply address text inserted into the the email To field but
the real McCoy instead. So that is good too and saves having to wipe
and reinsert the correct working To: address.
The closest you can come to a news reader with an email list is:
1) get the messages separately
2) filter them into folders appropriately
3) view them in threaded view
I found an applescript for Mail to burst mime digests into separate
emails here <http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Misc_Scripts.html>
And then one needs to fish the one wanted out and to throw the others
out? Not for me, thanks. What I already do is not *that* hard. And
there is always the web based GG that can be logged into... I guess
that is not all that bad either... I am just saying...
If I got separate emails from LEM all day and night, could I have it
that my attention is not drawn to them? No ping, no red dots in the
dock next to the mail.app icon, they go into separate folder and
quietly and I look at them when I want. Think of it as a farmer
setting traps on his property, as he is sitting quietly doing his
accounts by the fire in his homestead, he does not want to hear each
trap go off or the agonising death throws of each little rabbit, he
will collect all on his regular run the next day. But he does want to
hear if a bear or a lion gets through his fences, so not all activity
is needed to be silent. Some he does not want to be distracted by and
others he does.
The issue here is that email and usenet news are quite different
things, and deal with completely different message structures.
Google ports usenet messages to their Google Groups format; but not
vice versa.
I was vaguely imagining a usenet group that was restricted so that
only members could actually post, the rest, the lower unwashed
classes could look on in envy but not touch.
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