From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NjvWU-0006f8-8e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C125E0AF0 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32BEE0807 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90A9E60E5A5 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:34 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Message-ID: <20100223130834.36b0d95c@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <67701443-6E08-476C-AF00-5F6BB156E643@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100223102617.50108832@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs23 (GTK+ 2.18.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/+l_bfSE1kMxh1=jC9AS+x0."; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a6229b75-a40f-4b69-9551-c1efeab86289 X-Archives-Hash: 057d119df15520c5a4a475f90311219a --Sig_/+l_bfSE1kMxh1=jC9AS+x0. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:48 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to > > read it in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more > > simple? =20 >=20 > No, because then I would get all the mail in my inbox and I would be > the one responsible for filtering it; a total waste on bandwidth and my=20 > time. GMane does that for me instead. Well, setting up filters is hardly taxing or time consuming, but I see your point. > I am currently "subscribed" to 31 mailing lists on GMane. I don't even=20 > want to imagine what would happen if I would receive email from all of=20 > them (and 90% of the posts would not interest me anyway, so why recieve=20 > them in the first place?) It's just not practical. A Usenet-like=20 > front-end is the perfect solution here; a mailing list is very similar=20 > to a Usenet newsgroup and that's why this approach is the most > practical one. And even if I were subscribed to only one list, it > would still be the best way to access it; even though the traffic is > much lower when compared to 31 lists, but it's still high enough to get > annoying with something landing on your inbox every 10 minutes or so, > even stuff you don't intend to read. With Usenet, you only get what > you're interested in, and you get it in a way that is very easy to > access and browse though. With the downside being that the process is slower, as you have to download each message or thread as you want to read it. Contrast this with having email delivered whether you are reading it or not and being filtered at the moment of arrival so it is instantly available, sorted into folders, when you start up your client. However, this convenience uses more bandwidth, so if that is worth more to you than your time, using Usenet for selective reading does make sense. --=20 Neil Bothwick furbling, v.: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" --Sig_/+l_bfSE1kMxh1=jC9AS+x0. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuD01gACgkQum4al0N1GQP9pwCfSNyoqIbO7e/L6cI6SvjCra+p bLMAn2Q/UzSlIqy99O1CSKXPccaMXkOh =5NAU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/+l_bfSE1kMxh1=jC9AS+x0.--