On Friday 13 April 2007 01:05:54 pm Joachim Schrod wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > Um, that's what all local email does. In fact, I spend most of my time > > deleting the 50 or so post which aren't interesting/relevant. With > > forums, I just ignore them. > > Then you might want to try a news reader, at > nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user > Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and others have quite good capabilites.
Oh, I know. I've been using XNews, 40-Tude Dialog, KNode, Pan and others for awhile. I honestly can't stand Netscape and the various derivatives - Seamonkey/Mozilla. I have thunderbird loaded but more appreciate separating my news and nntp readers. I've been on the black slimepit of Usenet for some time now: http://tinyurl.com/2m9fzz http://tinyurl.com/33am95 http://tinyurl.com/2k65ns Those three urls show some of the 5,000 Usenet posts I've made over the recent years. Heck - I'm writing an NNTP binary download program: http://www.donutmonster.com It should be ready by sometime in 2010. :P As it is, I've even run 40-Tude under SUSE: http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/40tude_linux.jpg > > Proper threading, kill files, mark remaining articles as read with > one touch; everything is there to scan hundreds of articles in a > few minutes. Furthermore every news reader can differentiates > between followup (reply to group) and reply to author, thus making > the dreaded Reply-To discussion mood. (Be careful to set the news > reader configuration that you see only unread messages by default.) Well, KMail does most of that and allows reply to List for lists such as this. I still prefer forums for their simplicity. I stand behind PHPbb as the best out there for raw forum horsepower. > > Best of both worlds. News readers were optimized long time ago to > be able to handle MANY articles in MANY newsgroups. Without them, I > wouldn't be able to handle the several thousands of messages that I > scan on a daily basis. Try to do that in a forum. I don't - I only read the forum sections I'm interested in. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
