Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 23 February 2010 11:48, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>> On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this
>>>> mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and
>>>> email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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
>> time. GMane does that for me instead.
>
> Just to make my point more clear:
>
>  http://i50.tinypic.com/15ow2g8.png
>
> All of these under the "GMane" groups are mailing lists, but they appear
> just like Usenet newsgroups.  I can't imagine any easier way to easily deal
> with 30+ mailing list subscriptions.

Also, unlike when using a mail client, with usenet you don't have to
download the message/thread if you're not interested in reading it.

Back to the OP's topic, I am also using Knode (but not for this M/L).
If you set your USE flags right you should be able to continue using
Kmail/Knode without some of the dependencies that the full KDE4
desktop requires.  However, I don't know if from KDE4.4 changes on
dependencies (as per recent thread on semantic-desktop) mean that more
of these will be pulled in.
-- 
Regards,
Mick