On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 07:21:24PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > I have to agree here. Remember, this mailing list is being used by people > new to Debian and probably Linux as well. A 'real' newsgroup would be better > than a simulated one for those of us who can't/won't use something like emacs > with gnus. > The other thing I like about a real newsgroup is that my newsreader > downloads just the headers of messages and not the entire message. It > downloads > the whole message only if I want to read it. > Finally, I wouldn't have to explicitly set the reply-to address to make > sure > a reply goes back to the list and not just the individual who wrote the > message > I'm replying to.
I think a good mail reader addresses most of these issues. mutt has threading, for example, so it's not that different to a news reader. Also with the reply thing, mutt has three reply options -- r for reply to the author, g to reply to everyone who the original was sent to (ie the list and yourself in this case), and L to reply to the mailing list. (You have to tell it the names of your mailing lists.) And you can give it a list of all your folders (using procmail or sortmail to sort) and it can go through each showing you the new messages, just like tin/nn. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
