On 2010-07-27 19:59 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Darrin Chandler wrote: > > IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would > > be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and > > well known features of SMTP. > > SMTP is designed for delivering messages point-to-point. If your email > provider incorrectly marks half the list traffic as spam, you can't read > it.
This has nothing to do with SMTP, and everything to do with your email provider being worthless. > If your PC dies and you lose all your email, you cannot get it back > again. Assuming you've never heard of list archives or backups, sure. > If you hit reply, it only replies to the one person who wrote the > message, not to the list. Every mail client worth its salt has a 'reply to group' function, which performs as advertised. In fact, I can't even name a single one that does not have this function. > And every person has to download every single message ever sent. > Because, let's face it, all a list server does is receive emails and > then re-send them to everybody. This point is valid, but not really relevant since the advent of DSL. A week's traffic on linux-kernel is about 30 megabytes. Haskell-cafe is about 4. > If your mail system isn't operational at the moment when the email is > sent, you'll never receive it and cannot ever get it afterwards. This is not an accurate reflection of reality. > I constantly have trouble with this mailing list. Even gmane can't seem > to thread it properly. But I've never had any trouble with threading in > any NNTP group, ever. Mutt seems to have no trouble threading it properly. I haven't encountered an issue with gmane and this list, although admittedly I don't use it often. > [Well, apart from that stupid Thunderbird bug they still haven't fixed > yet. But that's a client bug. Use a different client and it goes away.] The same can be said about email threading. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe