Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 22:11 +0100, Outway wrote: >> I don't see in what way a mailing list is superior to a newsgroup. But I >> do see several advantages of a newsgroup: >> >> * Clear thread structure (collapsable trees in standard news readers) > > Well, actually, that's also possible with decent mail clients. Crappy > ones can't, and postings from crappy ones disrupt the threading for > everyone else (for news and email). > > You didn't mention bandwidth saving: You download a list of headers, of > what's become available since your last look, but you only download the > actual body of message when you go to read it. i.e. If there's 2,000 > messages one day, and you only want to read 2 of them, they're the only > ones you'd fetch. > "that's also possible with decent mail clients," such as Seamonkey. I assume also with Tbird, but I haven't used that since SM got RSS support and I can track dozens of list with low interest to content ratios. Set to download headers only. > Nor: Never receive spam in your personal mail, since you don't have to > expose your email address when posting to a news server. Some servers > will accept no address, others insist on one (but you can use a > blackhole address that you don't check for mail). > There is so much spam in email that this is a dubious claim. If you actually use your mail, someone will leak it (by not using BCC on a mail) and you will get spam. >> A newsgroup is no more complicated to set up from a reader point of view >> than mailing list access. No exotic software is needed, the newsgroup >> can also be web interfaced. > An Seamonkey supports "watched threads" for news, so you can use the "show watched threads with new posts" mode if you are checking mail in limited time or bandwidth. > In the past it could be a bit of a pain, if you found that you needed to > go to more than one news server for all of your groups. But more > clients are around that handle multiple news servers, and quite well. > > In general, I have preferred news to mailing lists, though it's been a > long while since I bothered. > I actually ran my own server for a long time, and a mail to news gateway. I was running news servers for a living then, so it wasn't much effort. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
