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 1NjxJA-0002yz-CR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 066DEE0CEA for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:24 +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 D660FE0A43 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:12 +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 6D78368B93B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:06 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Message-ID: <20100223151500.6f32c12c@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <67701443-6E08-476C-AF00-5F6BB156E643@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100223102617.50108832@digimed.co.uk> <20100223130834.36b0d95c@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_/ULL=q1tx0AKD=.1=RjpRJlc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 966790b6-d04b-4ef9-b531-78ff0fcfa7e6 X-Archives-Hash: c1e01b235e0e69d0c3852693b117056a --Sig_/ULL=q1tx0AKD=.1=RjpRJlc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > waste bandwidth, need to set up filters every time you subscribe to a=20 > new list Which takes about ten seconds usually. >, need to unsubscribe when you don't want to receive email=20 > 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.=20 > need hard disk space to store all the downloaded messages,=20 > don't have access to messages from the time you weren't subscribed yet,=20 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Walk softly and carry a fully charged phazer. --Sig_/ULL=q1tx0AKD=.1=RjpRJlc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuD8PgACgkQum4al0N1GQM8vQCfVqKwhdaBetrilLVpKRxfAlQq UDAAoMdVmwbFTeblSPNH3nxNMmmJVAXV =OU+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ULL=q1tx0AKD=.1=RjpRJlc--