On 11 June, 2012 - David Combs sent me these 2,4K bytes: > 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.
.. or use a mail reader that doesn't suck. > When via a powerful newsreader (I use trn4), all of that is done for you > automatically. mutt is probably pretty close. > 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. It's called "mail filtering". > -- > > 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. Good to know, I better trust this info - just like spam that says it's not spam :P > 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 /Tomas -- Tomas Forsman, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
