Harold Fuchs wrote:
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Don't you get the same 100+ messages per day in your News "folder"?
Which in some news readers (Thunderbird, for example) you can't delete.
And to which you can't "properly" reply because you can't tell if the OP
is subscribed or not and therefore whether or not s/he will see your
words of wisdom?
Or is this yet another SIGTWEO (Stick I've Got The Wrong End Of)?
You are right that the hypothetical 100 do appear in your news folder
(but only the header until you open them) and it just doesn't feel like
a mailbox to me... Quite often I'll just "mark all read" if it looks
like inconsequential stuff and then at a convenient time, follow up just
on the interesting threads. (FWIW - I use TB as my newsreader)
I was not aware of the subscribed/not subscribed issue - as far as I am
concerned, if someone posts a question or statement to a mailing list
then that is where the response should go. I'd never usually reply to
the poster directly unless I knew them well or had something "off-topic"
to say (perhaps). Also, the original poster may well be
viewing/contributing to the the mailist via gmane (as I am now).
So no, I don't think you got the stick incorrectly positioned. In fact
that was an concept of mailing list use I had never considered before:
post, and then run away ;-)
Cheers
Alan
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