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 1NjxN8-0003QY-AA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:12:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFAEEE0D99 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D01E084B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D3D641BC for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.532 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.532 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L5F5BSFR7ck4 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E04E1B43CF for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Njx1O-0004hd-TZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:02 +0100 Received: from 64.122.56.22 ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:02 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 64.122.56.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <67701443-6E08-476C-AF00-5F6BB156E643@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100223102617.50108832@digimed.co.uk> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.56.22 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: ee0d7e23-ab6b-4d05-bdc6-03d286d236df X-Archives-Hash: 52ea095549ef655cc1e0ed4e04ce745b On 2010-02-23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> 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. I too use Gmane to read all mailing lists, but I use a dedicated news client (slrn) instead of a combined e-mail/news client. I definitely don't want all those e-mailes coming through my in-box where _I've_ got to filter, sort, and archive them. I'd much rather let gmane handle that. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK makes at me nervous!! visi.com