Am 03.07.2011, 23:26 Uhr, schrieb Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>:

Hi :)
Sorry, i didn't notice this because i don't use Nabble or Gmane for the emailing list. I just use my normal email-client and i imagine most new users do too.
On that note -- isn't it really uncomfortable to have a threaded discussion via e-mail (and have an e-mail sent to you for every post you might never even want to read?) I know this is derailing the thread a bit, but I'm just now feeling the disadvantage of taking part in a newsgroup that's run via e-mail, using a news server (gmane in my case) that's more or less just bolted on (with my messages appearing a day late in the list and so on...), and I would have thought that the most sensible thing would have been to have a proper nntp server in the first place. After all, most e-mail clients can just set up nntp accounts with no problem (at least Opera has been able to, since at least ten years.) And things like the problem that started this thread could be more easily avoided if there was a clear distinction between regular e-mail and newsgroup posts.

It appears I must overlook something here, since these days everyone seems to switch to mailing lists instead of newsgroups, but I don't really see what the advantage is supposed to be.

Zak


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