I'd like to setup an nntp.ximian.com as well, especially once we make a release of Evolution with nntp support.
The decision isn't up to me, however, so who knows. Jeff On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:31, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:33, Michael Wever wrote: > > > Use Pan for mailing lists or newsgroups. It's far superior than evolution > > in this respect and you don't get any of these problems. > > Use PAN for mailing lists? How? Mailing lists use ... ermm ... mail. > *Some* mailing lists also get distributed as newsgroups (gnu.emacs.help, > for example) but I don't think most do and I'm petty sure the Ximian > ones don't. > > Actually (OT now) why do open-source projects use mailing lists? Isn't > NNTP much better for discussions like this -- you can set up a > newsserver, say nntp.ximian.com, which only carries local groups, i.e. > ximian.evolution, ximian.evolution.patches, and which requires > authentication for access. Then instead of signing up for a mailing list > you simply sign up once for the newsserver. This would (a) cut down on > the possibility of spam being sent to the lists, (b) cut down on the > vast amount of email we all get, (c) make managing list discussions > easier (newsreaders have good facilities for killing threads or authors > you're not interested in, and for "catching up" (i.e. by marking > everything as read) when you've been away on holiday, etc). By keeping > the retention setting on the newsserver very high you would also have a > permanent archive of the discussions (a bit like the mailman web > archives) which you could access from within your newsreader simply by > toggling "view read messages". > > IMHO whilst spam is the number one threat to the utility of email by a > long way, mailing lists are the number two threat. Most of us simply get > too much email. News/NNTP/usenet was invented for this kind of thing. > How come we don't use it? > > Best, Darren -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
