On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 17:14 GMT, Anton Zinoviev penned: > Hi! > > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use > offlineimap but this was only to realise that I can afford it. May be > other people have symilar problems (mobile computers, etc.). > > Certainly I am not interested in every message. May be there is some > way to control which messages will be copied from the server to the > computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I > connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messages > from each thread. Then read the received messages offline. Next by > some "subscription" mechanism I connect again and receive all messages > from threads I have selected. > > I can install software both on my computer and on the server I use. > It would be nice however to find a solution that will not require to > install anything on the server. > > Thanks, Anton Zinoviev > >
It sounds like the gmane newsgroup mirror might be a good idea for you. You can choose to only download headers initially, and the newsreader will then only pull the full message if you try to view it. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]