On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:16:38 -0700 John Rudd <jr...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Personally, when I'm so lightly involved in a message stream that I > don't want to be subscribed to the entire list, I prefer to use the > RSS interface to a forum (or, an RSS feed into a forum). Especially > if the RSS feed only posts 1 message per topic (the lead in message of > the topic). Then I can skim the topics, pick which ones to dive in to > or not. Then I can subscribe to updates of a given topic that I like > (and read them in the forum, or maybe in my email if they send you 1 > message per update, instead of 1 message per day), or not. If I > don't, then I _never_ see that topic again. And either way, I don't > store a flood of messages in my account (not before I read them, not > after I read them). > I don't see any advantage in doing it that way over using the gmane news server, and most lists will accept posts from gmane.
