[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 02/25/2010 11:45 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>> On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this
>>>>> mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and
>>>>> email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
> OT: It occured to me that many, including you, have this awfully fuzzy font
> rendering. Aren’t you bothered by that? (Assuming you’re on a TFT). When I
> look at your image, my view starts floating on a plane in front of the screen.
>
> See http://i47.tinypic.com/1zxsbok.png

No, actually I find it much better then the one in your screenshot. 
Much easier to read for me.  I guess this is due to differences in our 
monitor's DPI.  I can image that lower DPI monitors must show it pretty 
"zoomed-in" and therefore blurry.  The fonts in your screenshot actually 
look like small, thin lines instead of proper fonts here.


> As you can see, I’m also using a mail client for those lists. At the
> beginning, I used my Uni’s news server, but at some point, I couldn’t post to
> this list anymore through NNTP. So I had to switch to mail interface.
>
> But even though local archiving works better with mails (articles are gone
> from the news server after a short while), I’d prefer the NNTP way though,
> it’s easier to view the list filtered (e.g. no ignored threads).

For what it's worth, GMane's NNTP server never deletes messages.  In the 
case of gentoo-user, everything's still there; the oldest posts date 
back to 2002.