2010/9/7 J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org>: > Except that then I need to do these 2 steps all the time and for every mailing > list that I use. >
Only once for the news groups of gentoo. Only one click to subscribe to a second group. > Usenet's strength was that all news-groups were accessible through all news- > servers. Usenet was the sozial network of the past. It has been replaced by something better in that function. > By using different news-servers for different projects, this advantage is > gone. Usenet is gone. The advantage of a projects newsserver is something very different. Easy to subcribe to and a full knowledge database of all discussions without switching to a browser. The problem is that people didn't learn how to do that at all. > This way, I only need to subscribe to mailing lists once and only need to > remember one set of account-details. But you have to set up filters for that account. > With different news-groups, this list becomes too much to remember and > maintain. news.*.org is possible to remember even for me -- and I am really bad in this. > > And I am not aware of any news-reader that can handle multiple different news- > servers easily without a news-proxy like leafnode sitting in between. Thunderbird. There is no limit to severs you can subscribe to. Al
