Hi, On Thu, 07 Jan, 1999 à 04:54:49PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Didier Verna wrote: > > > > Mosl Roland writes: > > > > Mosl> I find the current method with email very unpractical. > > > > I find it very practical. > > Not everyone out here agrees with that statement. > > > Mosl> Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as > > Mosl> news.debian.org ? > > > > I hope not. The signal/noise ratio on mailing lists is always so > > much > > better than on a newsgroup. > > Not if its a 'private' news feed as in news.debian.org, and not > the Usenet. [snip] > The issue is not how many features your news reader/mail reader > has. The problem is that email lists require you to download > *every* message, whether you want to read them or not. With a > news server, you only have to download the subject lines, and only > the messages you want to read. > You can do that with a pop account too. It's a waste of time unless you only download a very small amount of your mails : when you do decide to download a mail you get its headers a second time ! > > > Mosl> So why not change it to a privat (only on one server available) > > Mosl> newsgroup? > > > > It might be possible to have a newsgroup mirroring the list, but > > even > > that, I don't like at all. > > Well, I *do* like the idea; so take that. > > I realize that debian.org may not have the resources to setup a > 'private' non-Usenet news server on debian.org, but look, we've [snip] > subject lines), a newsgroup is more efficient for those of us who > don't have the T1, or better, connections that the rest of you > apparently have (how long does it take you to download 500 emails, > Hmmm?). If debian.org doesn't have the resources then say that,
It's not that long. I do collect about 200 Mails a day with a 33600 modem in about 3 minutes. > or give a more concrete reason, instead of just telling us 'I like > it better'. > All I'm asking is for the majority to show a little more > understanding of the minority's position. > > > -- > Ed C. > > ------------------------------ -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
