"Paul A. Rubin" <[email protected]> writes:
> On 08/04/2017 10:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:22:40AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote:
>>> On 2 August 2017 at 10:03, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <rant>
>>>>> I'm using gmail's web interface these days. <snip>
>>>>> </rant>
>>> A decade or so ago I used 'pine' which worked really well for my
>>> <snip>
> FWIW, I subscribe through GMail, using a filter to put the dev and
> user lists in separated virtual folders, but access my GMail account
> in Thunderbird (IMAP). The messages are individual. I don't know if
> there's a way to maintain threads in T-bird (haven't tried), but I can
> always use a "Quick Filter" to isolate a thread.
In case anyone is interested, here's where I'm currently at:
* I'm now using 'Gnus' in Emacs, accessing the list through a 'news'
interface.
Note: I'm a fast typer in Emacs, so I thought I should find a client
that works directly in Emacs => kind of randomly picked Gnus.
* At first I used IMAP to Gmail from within Gnus to access the lists,
using my @lyx.org-account. I actually automatically got groups such as
'lyx-devel' since I already had filters that put 'labels' on lyx-devel
etc. This way to interface the lists seems like it would work.
Note: A drawback is that this Gmail account did not have all old
posts, so I wouldn't be able to go arbitrarily back in time.
* But then I stumbled upon a still running news service for the lists.
Possibly this is related to the old 'gmane' service. E.g.
nntp+news.gwene.org:gmane.editors.lyx.devel
The 'news' interface is working well so far. And I can go back and see
posts from something like 2003 or so.
It was some work to mark all the old posts. If anyone is curious, we're
talking about >150k posts on the devel lists. Marking most of them as
read while keeping the interesting ones "unread" took a little work,
especially as I intitially didn't know how to use 'Gnus' correctly.
As I scanned through old articles back to 2015 or so, I "ticked" the
ones I thought might be interesting to read/re-read. I don't think I
could've done what I did in Gnus using e.g. Gmail, it simply wouldn't
have worked in practice with that amount of articles -- to slow.
Using 'Gnus' seems _way_ faster than using the gmail interface.
There's a learning threshold though... E.g. I only recently started
using M-g, for 'gnus-summary-rescan-group', as a quick way to refresh
and be notified about new posts.
One possible drawback with using 'news': There might be a delay before
I see posts as they have to go the list and then be forwarde to
news.gwene.org before I can see them.
If anyone is interested in details about my configuration etc I'd be
happy to share.
/Christian
