Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

[Al <oss.elmar@googlemail.com>]

2010/9/7 J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>:

> Except that then I need to do these 2 steps all the time and for every mailing
> list that I use.
>

Only once for the news groups of gentoo. Only one click to subscribe
to a second group.

> Usenet's strength was that all news-groups were accessible through all news-
> servers.

Usenet was the sozial network of the past. It has been replaced by
something better in that function.

> By using different news-servers for different projects, this advantage is gone.

Usenet is gone. The advantage of a projects newsserver is something
very different. Easy to subcribe to and a full knowledge database of
all discussions without switching to a browser. The problem is that
people didn't learn how to do that at all.

> This way, I only need to subscribe to mailing lists once and only need to
> remember one set of account-details.

But you have to set up filters for that account.

> With different news-groups, this list becomes too much to remember and
> maintain.

news.*.org is possible to remember even for me -- and I am really bad in this.

>
> And I am not aware of any news-reader that can handle multiple different news-
> servers easily without a news-proxy like leafnode sitting in between.

Thunderbird. There is no limit to severs you can subscribe to.

Al