Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx