On 23 February 2010 11:48, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this >>>> mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and >>>> email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both. >>> >>> Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to read it >>> in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more simple? >> >> No, because then I would get all the mail in my inbox and I would be the >> one responsible for filtering it; a total waste on bandwidth and my >> time. GMane does that for me instead. > > Just to make my point more clear: > > http://i50.tinypic.com/15ow2g8.png > > All of these under the "GMane" groups are mailing lists, but they appear > just like Usenet newsgroups. I can't imagine any easier way to easily deal > with 30+ mailing list subscriptions.
Also, unlike when using a mail client, with usenet you don't have to download the message/thread if you're not interested in reading it. Back to the OP's topic, I am also using Knode (but not for this M/L). If you set your USE flags right you should be able to continue using Kmail/Knode without some of the dependencies that the full KDE4 desktop requires. However, I don't know if from KDE4.4 changes on dependencies (as per recent thread on semantic-desktop) mean that more of these will be pulled in. -- Regards, Mick
