<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> You mean like this:<br>
> <a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886" target="_blank">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886</a><br>
> [Was feisty really ready to release ?]<br>
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</div>I think that Windows 7 was the first OS released to cheers as opposed<br>
to "It's buggy" since maybe the Commodore 64 (the 128 was buggy).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> You really should try reading/responding to the list via the <a href="http://gmane.org" target="_blank">gmane.org</a><br>
> nntp news server (news.gmane.org:gmane.linux.ubuntu.user). I can easily<br>
> view threaded posts back to 2004 so it's quite easy to do a simple<br>
> search using SeaMonkey or Thunderbird - or just scroll up through the<br>
> threads. IMO it beats the heck out of using email for the list; no<br>
> downloads of many email msgs each day, archived headers are easily<br>
> available, etc., etc. When you want to share, just look at the headers &<br>
> each <a href="http://gmane.org" target="_blank">gmane.org</a> will have a 'Archived-At' header with a permalink to the msg:<br>
> Archived-At: <<a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886" target="_blank">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/111886</a>><br>
> you can then click on 'TOPIC|Go to the topic' to see the thread.<br>
><br>
> Added note for Dotan: you can do the same on the OOo user list as well<br>
> (gmane.comp.openoffice.questions).<br>
><br>
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</div>I had considered that, but I found a beter way: Gmail. I subscribe to<br>
the lists that I need and the Gmail interface is almost perfect for<br>
the purpose. I don't like it for work, studies, or personal email (I<br>
use Tbird with my own email server) but for mailing lists Gmail is far<br>
beyond anything else.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
--<br>
Dotan Cohen<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br><br>