Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:13:37 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Format
>Why does everyone owning or interested in the glorious Toshiba Libretto >have to suffer this newsgroup. Suffer from what? This newsgroup is great! BTW at this point, to avoid confusion I'll refer to THIS 'newsgroup' as the maillist and the concept of a PROPER newsgroup (where you use a news reader, log into a news server and so on) as a 'newsgroup'. > Why can't we have our own proper >newsgroup with headers, message bodies, discussion lines and >synchronise and don't. Am I missin' something? Whats wrong with this maillist? I can download messages in Eudora with my normal mail (remember, more people use email than news), I can view then in webmail, I can sync them to my PDA if I so choose ... I can access them from everywhere through my cellphone (which is only 9600 yet is plenty fast enough to download the headers then the messages that I choose) ... plus at the end of x amount of time there is a digest produced on the web automagically. >Perhaps a degree in setting up newsgroup's? It ain't THAT hard ... surely ... although I dare say I'm not that familiar with newsgroups themselves ... besides which thats not the point, is there a need? Remember, proper newsgroups have a nasty habit of getting spammed because its a LOT easier for the less ethical to use a newsgroup crawler than it is for them to roam the web looking for email addresses that *might* be a maillist, subscribe to them correctly so they can send, then start spamming. A maillist is only slightly more obscure than a newsgroup but IMHO a lot more robust against abuse. Besides which you don't need to sync across servers. >I KNOW [do italics exist in outlook express] one can suspend >subscription by having different accounts. I know one can organise >message bodies into subfolders by use of filtering and the new [LIB] >thingy but for god [not your god, my god] sake it's the 21st century. Italics do exist in OE but don't use them as they become OE specific (and besides which most formatting codes often don't survive resends). Whats wrong with maillists in the 21st century anyway? If you find a good thing, stick with it. At least until something better comes out (and 'real' newsgroups aren't one of them for a situation like this). >I am going to be using a 10 000 baud satellite phone for the next two >years. I'll be saying a tearful goodbye if the song remains the same. Eh? Now you've really lost me. This list is quite useable over a 9600 baud link, certainly just as useable and probably faster than if you had to make a separate connection to a news server and negotiate with that in addition to your email server. >Surely Raymond, you of all people, can create a brighter future. Umm ... ya but you know what? You've thoroughly lost me! Perhaps you might wish to explain EXACTLY what the problem is ... I'm of the opinion you prefer having a proper newsgroup, distributed to the various news servers, instead of this maillist right? Of course, it could also be that I've just woken up and my brain is having trouble ticking over in which case gimme a hand and explain it again anyway ;-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
