Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Nov 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Grant> Obligatory aside: I'm completely baffled why anybody would choose
>> Grant> the mailing list format over Usenet. I don't even read mailing
>> Grant> lists via mailing lists. I recommend gmane.org
Grant> If I allowed news posts to interrupt me, I'd never get anything
Grant> done. I limit e-mail to things that really do require fairly
Grant> immediate attention.
Well, I do try to limit the number of things I pay attention to. However,
as the "Python guy" at work, participating
On Nov 18, Grant Edwards wrote:
> There is an NNTP patch to allow you to use mutt to read Usenet
> via an NNTP server.
Yes, I'm aware of it; it's last (alpha) update was in 1999 and
it probably has some fleas. :-)
> Mutt users who don't do that seem to like slrn -- it has a very
> similar look an
On 2005-11-18, Micah Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Grant> Obligatory aside: I'm completely baffled why anybody would choose
>> Grant> the mailing list format over Usenet. I don't even read mailing
>> Grant> lists via mailing lists. I recom
On Nov 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Grant> Obligatory aside: I'm completely baffled why anybody would choose
> Grant> the mailing list format over Usenet. I don't even read mailing
> Grant> lists via mailing lists. I recommend gmane.org's NNTP server for
> Grant> all your mailin
Grant> Obligatory aside: I'm completely baffled why anybody would choose
Grant> the mailing list format over Usenet. I don't even read mailing
Grant> lists via mailing lists. I recommend gmane.org's NNTP server for
Grant> all your mailing list needs.
For the same reason I don't
On 2005-11-18, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific
>>> before you post your next question.
If I can't tell from the subject line what the thread is about, I almost
never read it.
>> Note also that the subject line on an exis
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> Chad Everett wrote:
>>>I am back.
>>>No I am not a high school or college student.
>> your subject lines still suck. please read this
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific
>> before you post your next
