On Friday 05 May 2006 17:41, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> You could also use Thunderbird as a news reader only (no e-mail), and >> post using the GMane portal. Perhaps your Outlook version even >> supports NNTP. It would be a very strange piece of software if it >> doesn't support threading and referencing in NNTP :) > > Possibly, but I like the way the list emails work. I'm not really > interested in switching to a newsgroup model.
There is not really a difference, besides that you can use software better suited to list discussions, as news software mostly is. Using a news program feels just like mailing lists. You don't even have to take any special actions, or change the way you work. If you are subsribed to a list, you can already post using GMane. Set the identity to use the e-mail address you used for subscribing, add a news server with URI news.gmane.org, use the news program to subscribe to groups and you can post. > >> If you are gonna use Thunderbird, I suggest using GMane, because >> Thunderbird has no decent way to watch mail threads. Only >> news-threads it can watch, but even then the controls are a bit >> clumsy. > > This is an interesting discussion, but I don't think I'm going to go > to that much trouble just to get a thread-compatible mail client for > the lists. Considering that I've been active on several mailing lists > for a few years now and this has only been mentioned to me once or > twice before, I don't think it's a really big problem. I think, that you are either being ignored or unnoticed a lot, or people only complain silently. Or, perhaps many/some mail programs use the subject to match conversations as well, but that would be a kludge in my opinion. Are there any people here who do get Bowie's messages threaded? I find it very cumbersome anyway, because I cannot use the "show thread with own articles" filter of KNode now. I have to look manually for your replies. It rarely happens, but when I do see replies without proper reference, I mostly ignore the messages, because it becomes quite a mess.
