little survey on email habits

[Avi Greenbury]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:34:38 -0800
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 11/19/2009 03:54 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> > Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> I don't understand why people use email for this list when there
> >> is a perfect newsgroup, gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, for it. 
> > 
> > Because I use email for the other lists I subscribe to which don't
> > have newsgroups, and I like having one client for everything.
> 
> And what is to keep you from using one client for both email and nntp?
> Last I heard, Claws will do both.
> http://www.claws-mail.org/features.php
> 

I do it via imap/smtp now and it appears to work, so I've never felt the
need to change it.
Also, I check these from at least two different PCs, and I like my read
and ignore flags to be preserved. Which, AFAIK, nntp doesn't provide
for. That said, last time I had cause to find out it wasn't something I
was particularly interested in.

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