A Plea for sanity when posting to this list.

[Mike Procario]

On 5/17/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:26:54PM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> >> I think that's a bandwidth thingy. If you read a huge list by gmane
> >> you can check the headers first, before downloading the entire
> >> message. That way you can cope a few hundreds of posts per day with
> >> downloading only a hand full of messages.
> >>
> >> Which linux MUA can handle "header download only"?
> >>
> >
> >an imap e-mail account should allow you to do that. And most MUA
> >supports imap nowadays.
> 
> To the original poster mostly:
> 
> Then of course you should really think through what you are doing here.
> you are trading downlading a few hundred _text_ messages for downloading
> a few HTML pages and being online while reading your lists. I'm on a
> dial-up connection at the time (fucking BT!) and personally I'd rather
> put my computer to download my mail than live with a web interface.
> Downloading 200-500 messages a day on different lists takes about 2-3
> minutes and I can read and respond off line, taking all the time I need
> to think through my comments. Using a web interface to mail forces me to
> be online longer, and it's slower to read.
> 
> /M
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> 
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> way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
> complaining.
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> 

I decided to try gmane to see if it was useful and maybe understand what the 
issue was. I used Thunberbird subscribe to gmane.linux.ubuntu.user. It 
worked quite well and Thunderbird had no trouble handling the attachments. 
They were listed at the bottom of the page. A better newsreader is 
probabably the answer to the problem.


-- 
Mike

"Another casualty of applied metaphysics" --Hobbes
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