Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Martti Kühne
Sorry to kill the mood here, but downloading the whole [0] (think of Snowden: wget -r !!! !!1!) will let you search with the tools you are used to and you can proceed with the data as you like. For whatever reason your bandwidth is this damn luxury these days. cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] Mailinglists

2014-01-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 02:05:51PM +, Nick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Alexander Huemer dixit: > > >After reading [1] I really wonder why MLs became so popular. I believe > > >the problem of the usenet are the binary usegroups which became popu

Re: [dev] Mailinglists

2014-01-21 Thread Nick
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Alexander Huemer dixit: > >After reading [1] I really wonder why MLs became so popular. I believe > >the problem of the usenet are the binary usegroups which became popular > >for warez and are now reduced to that in the view of t

Re: [dev] Mailinglists

2014-01-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Alexander Huemer dixit: >> What client do you use for newsgroups? […] >I totally agree. Most Client applications for NNTP suck. Somebody^{(tm)} >should write a better alternative. pine rocks, IMHO. My problem is rather that I’ve got no access² to a working “regular” usenet server any more, only

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:03:19PM +, Nick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > > > There's [0] and [1]. [0] offers alternative protocol access (nntp). > > > > Yes, GMANE was created exact

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > There's [0] and [1]. [0] offers alternative protocol access (nntp). > > cheers! > mar77i > > [0] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless > [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/index.html > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:18:31PM +0200,

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Edgaras
> [1] is just the web frontend to the email archive. I don't see a way to > search there, nor to download the raw messages. Did you maybe paste the > wrong link? Wait what isin't search box in a middle of the page? An on results page there are more fields for more precise search! http://dir.gman

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Nick
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > > There's [0] and [1]. [0] offers alternative protocol access (nntp). > > Yes, GMANE was created exactly for the reason I mentioned. But the whole > thing should be

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > There's [0] and [1]. [0] offers alternative protocol access (nntp). Yes, GMANE was created exactly for the reason I mentioned. But the whole thing should be the other way around. A NNTP newsgroup that _maybe_ has an additional email

Re: [dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Martti Kühne
There's [0] and [1]. [0] offers alternative protocol access (nntp). cheers! mar77i [0] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.suckless [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/index.html

[dev] Mailinglists (was: [dwm] Conversion to XCB)

2014-01-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:07:37PM +0100, Markus Wichmann wrote: > archive of this list (which goes back maybe a year or so), and the > official version of the archive has no search function, nor has any > attempt at sending Google on that archive been successful. And since the > archive only has i