Advantages to true newsgroup? THREADS! If you wait until a thread is finished, you can then see the entire thread, and if you want, you can download the whole thing, or just parts thereof.
Great for learning, if you're mostly a lurker, not posting answers. That's vastly simpler than getting a thousand emails, saving them all in a file, and then having to sort them by subject-line (modified so "RE:", etc are ignored in sort key), to get them grouped by zfs-topic. What a pain. When via a powerful newsreader (I use trn4), all of that is done for you automatically. Furthermore, at least one newsreader, trn4, via its "t" (tree) command, will draw a tree (rooted at the right side of the page, but the text oriented so you can read right-side-up, without turning your head sideways) so you can pursue topics, can see how they lay out, or better yet, delete, say, flame subthreads (surely not a problem with zfs-discuss). Besides that, you don't have posts hitting your regular email list, diluting the urgent stuff you really do have to respond to, making it easier to miss that stuff. Lets you keep newsgroup-TYPE stuff (eg zfs-discuss email) separate from true-email stuff. -- QUESTION: how much effort (for someone who already knows how, has done it before) to create a newsgroup that mirrors a listserv? Once done, all anyone has to do is request from his friendly isp (mine is panix.com, *very* friendly) to support that new newsgroup. Name it something like comp.unix.solaris.zfs. Or just have it all go to comp.unix.solaris, which of course already exists. Anyway, I hope I've answered your question. Cheers! David -----Original Message----- From: James C. McPherson [mailto:j...@opensolaris.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 4:55 PM To: David Combs Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? On 12/06/12 06:40 AM, David Combs wrote: > Actual newsgroup for zfs-discuss? Actually, no. Where's the value in having a newsgroup as well as a mailing list? James C. McPherson -- Oracle http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2433/5062 - Release Date: 06/11/12 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
