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 1NjyHq-0001Wb-6p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:11:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D8BDE0BB3 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37081E081B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7EB1B4189 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:25:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.057 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.057 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.458, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 6THNOMLUoJgV for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778F41B40E7 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjxZn-0006wi-Ds for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:35 +0100 Received: from athedsl-388759.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.70.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:35 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-388759.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:25:45 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <67701443-6E08-476C-AF00-5F6BB156E643@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20100223102617.50108832@digimed.co.uk> <20100223130834.36b0d95c@digimed.co.uk> <20100223151500.6f32c12c@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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-388759.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20100223151500.6f32c12c@digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: a739c85a-88f5-4afa-bf6a-05ecb20466cf X-Archives-Hash: 6b26f7826c01c5c250da76d1753a5e60 On 02/23/2010 05:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> You and I do the same thing in the end. The difference is that you >> waste bandwidth, need to set up filters every time you subscribe to a >> new list > > Which takes about ten seconds usually. 10 is more than 0 :D >> , need to unsubscribe when you don't want to receive email >> anymore, > > Which takes about half that time, and both of these are infrequent > occurrences. For lists that I had only a transient interest in, I would > look at usenet versions. And when later you want to subscribe again... >> need hard disk space to store all the downloaded messages, >> don't have access to messages from the time you weren't subscribed yet, > > No, but I do have access to Google :) Yes, but this requires to go to Google. I have the messages right there in front of me. >> So in the end, we end up doing the same thing, by I do it in a saner >> way that was designed to do exactly that. :) > > No, you do it in a different way that suits your needs. That doesn't make > you right and people with other needs wrong. It just illustrates the > benefits of choice. I did not insult your choice, why assume that you > know better than me what I need? No, that wasn't my intention. All I'm saying in the end is that people stick to the ways they are used to do their tasks. There might be better options out there, but it requires getting used to those new options so they usually don't bother. I just though I'd mention the stuff here so people actually know the option exists and has saved me from quite some annoyances I had to deal with in the past. >> It appears it only has >> pros and no cons, so I don't see a reason to use email instead. > > How do you read messages without an Internet connection? > > Everything has pros and cons. You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem doesn't mean no else does either.