On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:02:21 +1000 Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/10 10:45, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > > That's a great list of features. But they all apply to mailing lists as > > well. > > I think Ben Finney was making comparison between Usenet/Mailing-List vs > Forum. The argument basically sums up to Distributed vs. Centralized.
I don't know what Ben was thinking so I was just making it explicit. > My only problem with mailing list is that for large lists, it can easily > overflows my inbox. Having a separate interface (e.g. NNTP) is quite > useful. For large list, I wouldn't be able to read all the posts anyway, > so from time-to-time I'd "Mark Everything as Read", you cannot reliably > do that in your Inbox even with filtering and all that stuffs. It's trivial to filter into separate folders and trivial to empty a folder. For me it's simply "^A" and "Del". However, it would be nice to have an expire function so that messages that I don't read for a specified time simply disappear. Do any email clients do that? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
