On 2 Apr 2001, at 15:51, Jerry Kreps wrote:
On Monday 02 April 2001 13:02, Damon Register wrote:
Lewie Wolfgang wrote:
Has SuSE ever considered setting up a USENET server for newsgroups of
It has been suggested before. I suggested it more than a year ago, I think, but it seems that some are rather vocal about their preference of this mailing list. Some have presented arguements for why this e-mail method is better but it seems to me that the pros and cons can be found in either medium. My opinion is that this list is fetting too busy for email.
I really wish that SuSE would convert this to a usenet group because it seems to me that it would make handling of these messages much easier.
disseminate information to a group of interactive users than USENET.
I agree 100%
I can think of two organizations that use this method; VmWare and Granitecanyon. Point your news reader at news.vmware.com and/or
Borland also uses this.
We can dream but I am afraid that e-mail fans would prevent conversion to usenet.
It's understandable, I would be happy if email supported threading, this is one of my main reasons for liking usenet. One of the advantages of email being essentially passive, it comes to you with no effort. Perhaps a combination of a news server and a digest mailing would be a nice compromise - the problems being how to automate the summary and the fact that it wouldn't be practical to replace this list with such a combination. While we're on the subject can anyone recommend a MUA for X? I'm still trying to move from winxxxx to SuSE and I don't know which email client to use. I use pegasus on win, which supports multiple accounts and extensive filtering, but I'm looking for an even more flexible solution. I need filtering (or preferable scripting) and mutiple mailboxes, mutiple accounts etc. I realise that this may be a little naieve and I'll probably end up with a sendmail/fetchmail based solution in the background but I haven't even started yet :-( I suppose I could use emacs...... regards, Bill