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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next prev parent 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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