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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100223151500.6f32c12c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hm0qft$aj7$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> You and I do the same thing in the end.  The difference is that you 
> waste bandwidth, need to set up filters every time you subscribe to a 
> new list

Which takes about ten seconds usually.

>, need to unsubscribe when you don't want to receive email 
> anymore,

Which takes about half that time, and both of these are infrequent
occurrences. For lists that I had only a transient interest in, I would
look at usenet versions. 

> need hard disk space to store all the downloaded messages, 
> don't have access to messages from the time you weren't subscribed yet, 

No, but I do have access to  Google :)

> So in the end, we end up doing the same thing, by I do it in a saner
> way that was designed to do exactly that. :)

No, you do it in a different way that suits your needs. That doesn't make
you right and people with other needs wrong. It just illustrates the
benefits of choice. I did not insult your choice, why assume that you
know better than me what I need?

> It appears it only has
> pros and no cons, so I don't see a reason to use email instead.

How do you read messages without an Internet connection?

Everything has pros and cons.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Walk softly and carry a fully charged phazer.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23  5:42 [gentoo-user] Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Stroller
2010-02-23  9:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 22:58   ` Stroller
2010-02-23  9:29 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-02-23  9:16   ` ubiquitous1980
2010-02-23 22:57     ` Stroller
2010-02-23 22:51   ` Stroller
2010-02-23 10:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 10:26   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 11:39     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 11:48       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 12:18         ` Mick
2010-02-23 13:09         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 15:45         ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-25 21:45         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-25 22:33           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 13:08       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 14:59         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 15:15           ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-02-23 16:25             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 17:42               ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 19:22                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 20:06                   ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-23 22:29                     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-24  0:55               ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-23 15:48         ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 16:52           ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 18:33             ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 19:36               ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 22:32                 ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 23:02                   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 16:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-02-25  4:32 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«

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