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 1Ospmq-0000BX-DU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:28:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25B0BE099B; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1443DE099B for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [76.14.68.122]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 444DB9FAFBCA for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C85BF32.4030800@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:27:30 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant References: <4C856E60.1040608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 37032eea-1f8e-4b32-bca1-7a64b9b9df1b X-Archives-Hash: 4e5267e70ba1ba9ea13b277c4d0171fc On 9/6/2010 4:55 PM, Al wrote: > Well that is the first advantage of a newsreader. It does not spam > your mailbox. You select yourself what you want to read by the header. > The other contents are never delivered to you, eat up neither traffic > nor space. People don't really need to complain of to much traffic. I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having to pay for access when email works well enough. kashani