On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 16:55 +0000, Duncan wrote: > FWIW, I prefer newsgroups and thus use gmane.org to follow most of my > mailing lists as newsgroups. Couple that with news profiles that pan > (the main gtk app I still use) remembers per group, and I don't have to > worry about using the wrong address. Of course, news has always been > somewhat obscure, unlike mail, so it's not a solution for everyone, but > it works for me. =8^)
Are you talking about Usenet newsgroups? Usenet is a service I expected to die a natural death _years_ ago! Talk about an Internet service that doesn't scale well ....! Used to be that every ISP that wanted to provide Usenet to its customers had to have at least one mondo computer with mondo hard drives, plus a mondo feed, so that they could keep a _local_ copy of every newsgroup to which their customers wanted to subscribe as it came down the pike. I understand that its gotten a bit more centralized now. My "wrong address" is a holdover from my use of Tagged Message Delivery Agent on my mail server for my email. Special email addresses, e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", were exempted from TMDA processing. I don't use TMDA anymore and really ought to change my subscriptions. I have a lot of "ought to"s here and a severe shortage of round tuits :-) > > I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to > > be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software > > design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot > > of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff > > just got abandoned. > > That was always my feeling too. GNOME 1 had some promise, just as KDE 2 > did, but GNOME 2 went one way and KDE 3 went another... and I preferred > KDE. KDE 4 has yet to prove itself either way. At minimum, they botched > the rollout there. While I'll often run bleeding edge betas, 4.0 was > early alpha, there were simply too many missing features to be usable > here. 4.1 is supposed to be much better. I'll see, when it comes out. > I still believe they'll get there, but given 4.0, I'm not at all sure > about 4.1. It may well be 4.2 or even 4.3 before it's actually worth I see that Gentoo is stable at KDE 3.5.9, which I have as an alternative from my gdm login (and which my desktop just spent many hours re-emerging). I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the encouragement. I do note that KDE ebuilds seldom if ever crap during a build, which is not always true with gnome ebuilds. Question: Can I run Evolution on KDE? the gnome people kind of adopted Evolution, like they absorbed Eautilus, from Ximian. I have a lot of time and work involved in setting up my mail and contact data which I doubt would translate to Kontact/KMail without additional substantial work. Does Kontact support address collections on an LDAP server? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | a duck is that one leg | available at 512-259-1190 | is both the same" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | - Anonymous | -- [email protected] mailing list
