little survey on email habits

[Florian Diesch]

Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> Florian Diesch wrote:
>
>> Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> writes:
>> 
>>> I don't understand why people use email for this list when there is a
>>> perfect newsgroup, gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, for it. Using that it will
>>> not clutter your mailbox, and using a newsreader like Pan you get good
>>> treading. I started reading this list by email but soon switched to the
>>> newsgroup, I find that much more comfortable.
>> 
>> Using Gnus and procmail it doesn't make much difference for me if it is a
>> mailing list or a news group.
>
> That's rather backward - you lose all the advantage of nntp by converting 
> everything to email.

I'm using the NNTP backend for newsgroups and the IMAP backend for mail. No
need to convert anything.



   Florian
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