On Friday 13 April 2007 01:05:54 pm Joachim Schrod wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
Um, that's what all local email does. In fact, I spend most of my time deleting the 50 or so post which aren't interesting/relevant. With forums, I just ignore them.
Then you might want to try a news reader, at nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and others have quite good capabilites.
Oh, I know. I've been using XNews, 40-Tude Dialog, KNode, Pan and others for awhile. I honestly can't stand Netscape and the various derivatives - Seamonkey/Mozilla. I have thunderbird loaded but more appreciate separating my news and nntp readers. I've been on the black slimepit of Usenet for some time now: http://tinyurl.com/2m9fzz http://tinyurl.com/33am95 http://tinyurl.com/2k65ns Those three urls show some of the 5,000 Usenet posts I've made over the recent years. Heck - I'm writing an NNTP binary download program: http://www.donutmonster.com It should be ready by sometime in 2010. :P As it is, I've even run 40-Tude under SUSE: http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/40tude_linux.jpg
Proper threading, kill files, mark remaining articles as read with one touch; everything is there to scan hundreds of articles in a few minutes. Furthermore every news reader can differentiates between followup (reply to group) and reply to author, thus making the dreaded Reply-To discussion mood. (Be careful to set the news reader configuration that you see only unread messages by default.)
Well, KMail does most of that and allows reply to List for lists such as this. I still prefer forums for their simplicity. I stand behind PHPbb as the best out there for raw forum horsepower.
Best of both worlds. News readers were optimized long time ago to be able to handle MANY articles in MANY newsgroups. Without them, I wouldn't be able to handle the several thousands of messages that I scan on a daily basis. Try to do that in a forum.
I don't - I only read the forum sections I'm interested in. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org