[gentoo-user] WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[gentoo-user] WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[James]

HOwdy,

So, using gmail as my front end to read gentoo user I see
this quite a lot now:

"weft didn't produce an output."

But when from the Gmane interface I select "followup"
it shows the message the previous poster wrote. Strange.

Googling I found: http://www.pressure.to/qda/

Which says version 2.0 was only release in alpha
and 1.x is deprecated.

(Hello Lars, what's your plan?)

Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?

(Please do not say NNTP)....

curiously James

Re: [gentoo-user] WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 16/04/2014 23:31, James wrote:
> HOwdy,
> 
> So, using gmail as my front end to read gentoo user I see
> this quite a lot now:
> 
> "weft didn't produce an output."
> 
> But when from the Gmane interface I select "followup"
> it shows the message the previous poster wrote. Strange.
> 
> Googling I found: http://www.pressure.to/qda/
> 
> Which says version 2.0 was only release in alpha
> and 1.x is deprecated.
> 
> (Hello Lars, what's your plan?)
> 
> Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
> 
> (Please do not say NNTP)....



I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser....

I'm still very olde skool in these matters, so:

Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
regular mail client?


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Stroller]

On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 11:29 pm, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/2014 23:31, James wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> So, using gmail as my front end to read gentoo user … 
> 
> … Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
> regular mail client?

I think he meant Gmane. 

I have seen these "weft didn't produce an output" messages myself, following some Gmane links that were posted here this week.

Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
> I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser....

Gmane is very nice. it mostly works. I noticed all the "WEFT" messages
are gone (for now?)......Lars BUDDY!

> I'm still very olde skool in these matters, so:
> Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
> regular mail client?

pine?   common Alan, your dating us old farts...... 
alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?    REALLY?


If you do this, you have to delete messages. With Gmane, I can ignore
gentoo-user sporadically with no consequences. Also, If I can get to
any browser, I can read and post to gentoo-user; which has saved my
bacon on several occations.......


What I was hoping for is some new fancy (ajax/ruby/?) frontend that
works better than gmane.org............?


James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/04/2014 18:32, James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>> Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
>> I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser....
> 
> Gmane is very nice. it mostly works. I noticed all the "WEFT" messages
> are gone (for now?)......Lars BUDDY!
> 
>> I'm still very olde skool in these matters, so:
>> Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
>> regular mail client?
> 
> pine?   common Alan, your dating us old farts...... 

Well I did at least make a concession to new stuff and use a gui mail
client. Currently Thunderbird.

> alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?    REALLY?

Alpine itself is now abandonware and replaced with some other *pine* app :-)

> 
> 
> If you do this, you have to delete messages. With Gmane, I can ignore
> gentoo-user sporadically with no consequences. Also, If I can get to
> any browser, I can read and post to gentoo-user; which has saved my
> bacon on several occations.......
> 
> 
> What I was hoping for is some new fancy (ajax/ruby/?) frontend that
> works better than gmane.org............?


Hmmm, no, I got nothing for you there


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Peter Weilbacher]

On 2014-04-18 02:11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 17/04/2014 18:32, James wrote:
>> alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?    REALLY?
> 
> Alpine itself is now abandonware and replaced with some other *pine* 
> app :-)

No, Eduardo Chappa still does Alpine releases every now and then,
2.11 is of last August and it's in portage. And who needs new versions
more often when a program works that well? :-)
    P.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Thursday 17 April 2014 16:32:34 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
> > 
> > I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser....
> 
> Gmane is very nice. it mostly works. I noticed all the "WEFT" messages
> are gone (for now?)......Lars BUDDY!
> 
> > I'm still very olde skool in these matters, so:
> > Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
> > regular mail client?
> 
> pine?   common Alan, your dating us old farts......
> alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?    REALLY?

Pine, that brings back some old memories...

> If you do this, you have to delete messages. With Gmane, I can ignore
> gentoo-user sporadically with no consequences. Also, If I can get to
> any browser, I can read and post to gentoo-user; which has saved my
> bacon on several occations.......

Why delete messages when using a real mail client?

> What I was hoping for is some new fancy (ajax/ruby/?) frontend that
> works better than gmane.org............?

mail-client/roundcube ?
With an imap-server (  net-mail/cyrus-imapd ) 

--
Joost

[gentoo-user] Re: WEFT Why Every F Time ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-04-16, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
>
> (Please do not say NNTP)....

Mind if I ask why not?

-- 
Grant