Hello Michael Disabato,
On Thu, 23 May 2002 16:26:01 -0500 GMT your local time,
which was Friday, May 24, 2002, 4:26:01 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Michael Disabato wrote:
Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 1:11:05 AM, Thomas scribbled:
TF Newsgroups and Mailing Lists have different climates. I
On Friday, May 24, 2002, tracer wrote...
Michael Disabato wrote:
Crossposting is out of the question. I will not have my email address
posted on USENET ever again.
The last isnt a problem as long as it is a throw away email address...
Or the server is a private server, and users require
Hello tracer!
On Friday, May 24, 2002 at 5:51:17 PM you wrote:
The last isnt a problem as long as it is a throw away email address...
I am now on the list for slightly more than 2 years. With a throw away
address (I do use such sometimes) I'd have to re-subscribe very often
...
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Dierk
Friday, May 24, 2002, 10:51:17 AM, tracer scribbled:
Crossposting is out of the question. I will not have my email address
posted on USENET ever again.
t The last isnt a problem as long as it is a throw away email address...
That's real convenient when you have certificates and PGP keys to
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 22:19, Britt Malka wrote:
RO I have to do complicated things to be able follow newsgroups with
RO TB.
How complicated? I would like to explain :-) - How do you make a
smiley with waving eyelashes?
Visit the archive and search for a thread named Newsgroups with
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 11:39:15 AM, Tim Fountain wrote:
Personally I find newsgroups much easier to browse than mailing
lists, and weren't there plans to make TB into a news client as well
in version 2...?
When TB! is a news client, then maybe it would make sense. Maybe when
we start
On Wed, 22 May 2002 03:18:53 +0100 Marck D Pearlstone
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Newsgroups? Personally, I don't read them! Life is too short. If the
user base really wants a NewsGroup and to disband this list I will
resign as moderator.
Hello Joseph,
On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:17:28 -0500GMT (22-5-02, 3:17 +0200GMT, where I
live), you wrote:
JN Isn't it time we created a newsgroup where messages could be posted
JN and read, even retained for a period of time?
You're forgetting that TB is an e-mail client and that lots of the
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Hail Joseph
On 22 May 2002 at 20:17:28 -0500 (which was 02:17 where I live) Joseph N.
wrote and made these points
Isn't it time we created a newsgroup
Humm. I spot on oxymoron here (I think). A news group for an email client.
I have used news
Hello Joseph!
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 3:17:28 AM you wrote:
The email load has become too great. Even with threading, the time to
download messages or even headers and then to weed through them has,
in my opinion, slipped over the line of cost:benefit.
It sounds to good to be true,
Hi Thomas,
On Wed, 22 May 2002 13:11:05 +0700, you wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
On Tue, 21 May 2002 22:07:03 -0500 GMT (22/05/02, 10:07 +0700 GMT),
Jonathan Angliss wrote:
JA There is always a third option. Some mailing list managers (mailman for
JA example) allow auto-posting to news
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Hello,
This is not a poll of course but, for the record, I don't think a
newsgroup would offer any serious advantage over the mailing list
format; unless one considers the bandwidth, as already pointed out.
That said, I'd still read a newsgroup
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, Allie C Martin wrote...
Meaning that newsgroups, unless they're private, are usually not
moderated. This allows a lot of flaming, arguing, off-topic
discussions and circular discussions completing way too many circles
before ending.
Well, as is
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, Dierk Haasis wrote...
Ähem, sorry to interrupt, but ... where would be the advantage? It
sounds a bit like adding two things together so there respective
disadvantages would sum up.*
The advantage would be for the end reader. They can then choose if
they want
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, Costas Papadopoulos wrote:
This is not a poll of course but, for the record, I don't think a
newsgroup would offer any serious advantage over the mailing list
format; unless one considers the bandwidth, as already pointed out.
Personally I find
Hello Roelof,
You're forgetting that TB is an e-mail client...
I follow a few newsgroups with TB! :)
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Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v1.60c
Current Ver: 1.60m
FAQ:
Hello Miguel,
On Wed, 22 May 2002 21:52:29 +0200GMT (22-5-02, 21:52 +0200GMT, where
I live), you wrote:
You're forgetting that TB is an e-mail client...
MAU I follow a few newsgroups with TB! :)
So do I. That's the point. I have to do complicated things to be able
follow newsgroups with TB.
Hello Clive,
(If only there were kill-file/ignore options a la VA).
Yes, I miss VA's Ignore option :-(
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Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v1.60c
Current Ver: 1.60m
FAQ:
Hello Jonathan!
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 at 4:04:11 PM you wrote:
As my original idea said... it'd not replace the mail list... in fact
it'll just be the mail list, but passed onto a news server. Any posts
that hit the lists, get dropped into the news server, and any news
postings
On Wed, 22 May 2002 at 22:16 GMT +0200 (23/05/2002 3:16 where you think
I live) Roelof Otten=[RO] wrote to Miguel A. Urech :
You're forgetting that TB is an e-mail client...
MAU I follow a few newsgroups with TB! :)
So do I. That's the point.
So we agree the point is we prefer to read using
Tuesday, 5/21/02, 6:08 PM
Hi Joseph,
On Tue, 21 May 2002, at 20:17:28 [GMT -0500] (which was 6:17 PM where I live)
you wrote about: 'Time for a TB! newsgroup?'
J Isn't it time we created a newsgroup where messages could be posted
J and read, even retained for a period of time? It would not
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Hi Paul,
@22 May 2002, 18:14:06 -0700 (02:14 UK time) Paul Wilson wrote in
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J Any interest in this? Isn't it time?
If that happens I will get along without the lists. If you think the
moderators are busy
Hi Marck,
On Wed, 22 May 2002 03:18:53 +0100, you wrote:
If that happens I will get along without the lists. If you think the
moderators are busy now, just wait until they are having to weed out
the spam and porn. Yes I know you are going to suggest a subscription
only newsgroup, they
Hi Joseph,
I am interested in a TB Newsgroup!
Best regards,
Joe O mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 9:17:28 PM, you wrote:
The email load has become too great. Even with threading, the time to
download messages or even headers and then to weed
On 20020522, Joseph N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[TB! newsgroup, obviously]
Any interest in this? Isn't it time?
I'm already reading this and a bunch of other mailing lists as
newsgroups[1], so to me personally it won't make much of a difference.
If I had the choice between pulling from a
Tuesday, 5/21/02, 9:02 PM
Hi Nick,
On Tue, 21 May 2002, at 21:15:31 [GMT -0700] (which was 9:15 PM where I live)
you wrote about: 'Time for a TB! newsgroup?'
N Let's end this crazy debate about a TB Newsgroup.
Right on Nick. By the way, Thank You, using your instructions I have
ADR up and
Hello Tone Marie Berg,
On Tuesday, May 21 2002 at 08:21 PM PDT, you wrote:
[1] As a general rule, I find mailing lists to be nothing but a
nuisance, so I convert them to newsgroups using Hamster
Hamster is an abomination and belongs with News Clients that are incapable
of connecting to
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Nick Andriash wrote to TBUDL:
Hamster is an abomination and belongs with News Clients that are incapable
of connecting to more than one Server...
Hamster can connect to as many mail and news servers as you like, all
at the same time, and it's not fairly characterized as a
Hello Michael L. Cusac,
On Tuesday, May 21 2002 at 09:54 PM PDT, you wrote:
Hamster is an abomination and belongs with News Clients that are
incapable of connecting to more than one Server...
Hamster can connect to as many mail and news servers as you like, all
at the same time, and it's
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Nick Andriash wrote to TBUDL:
You've misread my statement... I never said Hamster couldn't connect with
multiple News Servers. I said it belongs 'with' News Clients that cannot
connect to multiple News Servers, or in other words used with Clients such
as Agent.
I did
Hello Jonathan,
On Tue, 21 May 2002 22:07:03 -0500 GMT (22/05/02, 10:07 +0700 GMT),
Jonathan Angliss wrote:
JA There is always a third option. Some mailing list managers (mailman for
JA example) allow auto-posting to news groups/servers. If a newsgroup was to be
JA established, then a sort of
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