On 29/11/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:07:46 -0800 (PST), Francesco Pietra > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > Do you know if "free" yahoo.com allows threaded view for python only? I was > > Ah, now the "real problem" is revealed... > > For example, what you see as a mailing list many of us see as an > formal Usenet newsgroup (comp.lang.python is mirrored as both Usenet and > mailing list; and many mailing lists are routed by the gmane NNTP server > so even they can be viewed as news-groups). > > Regardless of what Google/Yahoo/M$/AOL want you to think, using a > web-based mail client is typically the worst way to follow mailing lists > and/or news-groups; much better to use a decent client program that can > download posts in the background, then sort/thread/filter them as > desired.
With the exception of Gmail. I really could not follow 20+ high volume lists (such as Python, PHP, Fedora, MySQL, OOo, and some other very high traffic lists) without Gmail. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
