A cross-posting newsgroup/mail-list would make most sense. There are several advantages to newsgroups: - ability to download headers only and bodies of only the articles you are interested in - greater ability to search without having to locally store all articles - threading
I do filter postings into their own folder, but I do not get nice threaded UI. Plus the volume is so high that POPing Tomcat messagaes slows down all mail retrieval and requires that I regularly clean out the mailbox. cheers, jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:41 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat Newsgroup? > > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jeff Wishnie wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:48:00 -0800 > > From: Jeff Wishnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Tomcat Newsgroup? > > > > YES! That would make much more sense. > > > > Newsgroups by themselves would disenfranchise a very large number of users > behind corporate firewalls that don't allow NNTP access outside. > > Mail readers are very easy to configure to give you a user experience for > mailing lists that is virtually identical to reading news - set up a > filoter to copy messages for each list to it's own folder. > > As it happens, there's some experimental work on a two-way mail+newsreader > solution for Jakarta mailing lists. That's probably ok (although we'll > end up with a lot more off-topic posts from users that haven't read the > list descriptions on the web site), but newsgroup-only would be a really > bad idea. > > > - jeff > > Craig (who spends much time behind such firewalls, and would not be able > to answer questions like this :-) > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
