Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. You mention Gnus as your newsreader. Try using it for mail then. It's quite workable. Then you get all the benefits of news that you need. /Andreas -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. It seems to me that mailing lists still expose senders email address. I am worried about getting spam because of this. Ok, nntp is even worse, but I can manage that. I also find that email applications don't deal as well with high volume email messages. I am comparing against newsreaders like: - Emacs GNUS - slrn I like these newsreaders, because they allow me to assign scores based on the subject and authors. I can easily handle a very high volume ruby newsgroup. The longer I use the newsreader the faster I become. For example, if I did not pay attention the the original message the replies are ignored automatically for me. I will read 2 - 3 messages I am interested out of 1000 post list in 30 seconds. Ok, may be I am using the wrong tools... I settled on Evolution as my primary application and I like it. Thunderbird is not bad either. Neither can handle high volume subscriptions. I'd appretiate advice on how to improve email handling. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
In the last episode (Jan 02), Sergei Gnezdov said: Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been active with mailing lists at all. I preferred to use newsgroups search and a little bit of posting. You can use gmane.org to read almost all of the FreeBSD lists via nntp. I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as opposed to newsgroups)? Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups quite nicely. It's a lot easier to read email offline than nntp, for one, and conversations progress much quicker on email lists because people interested in the topic get messages immediately instead of having to constantly poll the news server. I subscribe to mailing lists that I am active on, and less-frequently used ones I read via gmane's nntp interface every few days. I use mutt's scoring rules to sort topics (mutt is both an email client and a newsreader, but I only use it for mail; I read my news with mozilla). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
