little survey on email habits

[Derek Broughton]

Florian Diesch wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I see.  I was misled by the "procmail" reference.  Still, I use kontact, 
and it doesn't make much difference to me, either...  I either use the KMail 
page or the KNode page, but I vastly prefer the nntp version for lists.
-- 
derek