On 28 September 2012 11:16, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 28 September 2012 10:53, Graeme Geldenhuys
> wrote:
> > Actually you are wrong. MSEide+MSEgui uses a mailing list. Some of those
>
> Right, he must have changed over to a mailing list some time after I
> stopped using NNTP.
>
> Henry
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On 28 September 2012 10:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Actually you are wrong. MSEide+MSEgui uses a mailing list. Some of those
Right, he must have changed over to a mailing list some time after I
stopped using NNTP.
Henry
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On 2012-09-28 10:38, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> already explained why I prefer email, but I'm not trying to convert
> anyone.
Neither am I. I just pointed out my opinion and experiences. Some seem
to read more into that than I.
> It's interesting to note that both fpgui and mse{ide|gui} are using
>
On 27 September 2012 13:08, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> Do you have a list of _actual_ benefits of NNTP?
>
>
> Right back at you for Mailing Lists and Web Forums.
_You're_ the one advertising NNTP, I don't have an agenda here. I'm
just pointing out that your "benefits" aren't exclusive to NNTP.
On 27.09.2012 14:28, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Now these things simply can't be done with Web Forums. 99% of them have
linear views (think Gmail layout here) or hierarchies (of whole
messages), and not just a hierarchy of titles. So you scroll and scroll
and scroll and scroll and scroll.zz
On 2012-09-27 11:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> best to organise a backend, particularly in view of typical
> discussion-group (innd etc.) servers' very poor resilience to e.g.
> abrupt shutdown.
I use 'sn' NNTP Server. It runs on just about any *nix type operating
system. It is ideal for small to
On 2012-09-27 10:11, Sven Barth wrote:
I think Henry meant that differently.
I understood Henry perfectly. I worked like that too. Desktop and work,
and laptop at home. Maybe our tolerances to what is "brain energy" is
quite different. Maybe Henry just hasn't bother to learn the shortcuts
or
On 2012-09-27 10:29, Henry Vermaak wrote:
None of the FOSS projects I've worked with have used NNTP.
That hardly makes NNTP obsolete. It just means we move in different
"software" circles.
Do you have a list of _actual_ benefits of NNTP?
Right back at you for Mailing Lists and Web Forums
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
There are lots of benefits to NNTP though:
There are a lot of different things here though.
* Classic "push" NNTP between servers.
* "Pull" NNTP from a client to a (local) server, correctly called NNRP.
* The headers etc. used as metadata by discussion-group mess
On 26/09/12 15:00, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2012-09-26 14:22, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> I haven't found a project that uses NNTP for a long time.
>
> fpGUI - GUI Toolkit since 2005/6)
> tiOPF - Object Persistence Framework since 1999)
> OpenWatcom - C/C++ Compiler,IDE,Debugger,etc.
> Indy
On 27/09/12 10:11, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 26.09.2012 16:00, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>>> My main problem with it was that you can't
>>> keep track of read messages across different computers.
>>
>> Mobile users tend to use laptops, so no problem there. Alternatively,
>> use you smart phone and in
Am 26.09.2012 16:00, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
My main problem with it was that you can't
keep track of read messages across different computers.
Mobile users tend to use laptops, so no problem there. Alternatively,
use you smart phone and install a NNTP client there (iOS and Android has
NNTP
On 2012-09-26 14:22, Henry Vermaak wrote:
I haven't found a project that uses NNTP for a long time.
fpGUI - GUI Toolkit since 2005/6)
tiOPF - Object Persistence Framework since 1999)
OpenWatcom - C/C++ Compiler,IDE,Debugger,etc.
Indy - Internet components used by Delphi and FPC.
NexusDB - D
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