little survey on email habits

[NoOp]

On 11/19/2009 01:46 PM, Res wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> 
>> Res <res at ausics.net> writes:
>>
>>> email over usenet anyday
>>
>> Not for mailinglists
> 
> absolutely yes, the 'newbies' who prefere gmane are however welcome to do 
> so, but you might as well just go use a web forum.
> 
> I prefer for it to be delivered to me so i can choose what I read when i 
> want to read it, pine and procmail do the sorting and dump the rest 
> (unlesss I sent that person an email from this account since its only used 
> for usenet/some lists) into /dev/null...
>

A web forum? It's obvious that you've never viewed and/or posted to this
list via gmane.org. Have you ever used nntp & usenet? I suspect that you
have; what you get with gmane.org is exactly the same as when you
subscribe to a usenet group via nntp. The messages are threaded &
accessed on the news server. You only view/respond to messages that you
choose to do so & archived headers are available as far back at 2004.

Give it a spin, you might like it. Fire up your nntp newsreader client &
go to news.gmane.org & subscribe to gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, or use a
browser to go to news://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
If you wish to post via nntp, just respond to this message - you'll need
to show a valid return email address. gmane.org will send you an  email
to the effect of:

> You have sent a message to be posted on the
> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user newsgroup.
> 
> Before the message is posted on the newsgroup, you have
> to confirm that you exist.  Just reply to this message, and
> the message will be posted.
> 
> 
> You have to respond within one week.
> 
> -- Your friendly autoauthorizer at Gmane.org http://gmane.org/ 

Reply & the message will be posted (usually within about 10 minutes) &
from there on out you'll get no further emails from gmane for that
list's newsgroup.  You will get the same for any other lists that you
wish to post to, but the process is the same.

Now, a bright guy like you could even configure their newsreader to
download the headers & messages via gmane.org if you'd prefer to have
them archived locally :-)