jaunty the worst ever

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > You mean like this:
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886
> > [Was feisty really ready to release ?]
> >
>
> I think that Windows 7 was the first OS released to cheers as opposed
> to "It's buggy" since maybe the Commodore 64 (the 128 was buggy).
>
>
> > You really should try reading/responding to the list via the gmane.org
> > nntp news server (news.gmane.org:gmane.linux.ubuntu.user). I can easily
> > view threaded posts back to 2004 so it's quite easy to do a simple
> > search using SeaMonkey or Thunderbird - or just scroll up through the
> > threads. IMO it beats the heck out of using email for the list; no
> > downloads of many email msgs each day, archived headers are easily
> > available, etc., etc. When you want to share, just look at the headers &
> > each gmane.org will have a 'Archived-At' header with a permalink to the
> msg:
> > Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886>
> > you can then click on 'TOPIC|Go to the topic' to see the thread.
> >
> > Added note for Dotan: you can do the same on the OOo user list as well
> > (gmane.comp.openoffice.questions).
> >
>
> I had considered that, but I found a beter way: Gmail. I subscribe to
> the lists that I need and the Gmail interface is almost perfect for
> the purpose. I don't like it for work, studies, or personal email (I
> use Tbird with my own email server) but for mailing lists Gmail is far
> beyond anything else.
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>

I do the same and love it, but it has the drawback that the history only
goes back as far as my own subscription.  A real newsreader can go back as
far as the repository -- sometimes much earlier than my mail.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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