On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 13:57 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Whilst I feel email is still a very important part of my workflow, > gone are the days (for me at least) of a database of a quarter of a > million emails with hundreds of mailboxes sorted by hundreds of > filters.
This is where news servers, rather than mail servers, excel at providing users with a forum *like* this mailing list. The messages are sorted into groups at the server, and only the crappest clients break threading (usually Microsoft agents). You don't fill your drive with all the messages, you just cache the recent ones (the ones that you want to read, you don't have to cache everything that comes through today), and the old ones get purged (and you get to choose the purging criteria - age, number of messages in a group, read or unread, etc.). You can search for older messages with your news client, if you need to find the origins of a thread, or solutions to problems posted long ago. And, probably the best advantage, was that you didn't have to expose an email address to every bloody spammer on the planet. You can post to usenet without one. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
