Roland Sapsford wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am genuinely trying to make a transition to Open Source but I am quite
> challenged by the need to stay subscribed to a list that now comprises
> 8000+ messages in the relatively short time since I joined. I keep the
> message so that I can try and use the list as a searchable resource
> rather than just email blindly to it, but this is becoming impractical.
>
> I am sure you get asked this all the time but why a list rather than a
> wiki or something similar. Most other open source material I use has a
> wiki-based help system that is (relatively) easy to search. If there is
> a searchable archive of these messages somewhere that would also do the
> trick but I have only been able to locate bug reports so far.
>
> A pointer to the last time you answered this dumb question would be
> greatly appreciated ;-)
>
> All the best
> Roland Sapsford
>
>
Mailing lists suit some people, forums suit others. I found this list
required too much maintenance to download messages. I had to have so many
filters and no one else wanted to help monitor them. I also had to register
two addresses - a spam trap for posting and another address for receiving
messages.
So I registered with Nabble (the reference given by Hagar de l'Est). I also
use Gmane occasionally to check something -
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.openoffice.questions . Generally, my
registered address (digest mode) just gobbles up what it receives and
deposits it in trash.
That way you are not troubled by a lot of messages which simply send copies
of things to people who are deemed too stupid to find the replies for
themselves and you do not have to devise a whole lot of filters to remove
messages which are foolish and/or of no interest.
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