You're describing primarily client differences, not server/service
differences. Some people have been using the same tools for mail and for
news for years, with the same benefits to each.
Right now I'm posting through GMane's NNTP interface, only to show that
you can. nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs .
Normally I read it as a list (using mutt), because there I get the
entire thread, and it's downloaded in full, whether I'm lurking or
posting answers, and they're saved in a separate folder separate from my
inbox, separate from my true-email stuff.
And I don't have to use trn4! Gak, that was a horrible waste of trn3.
On 6/11/12 4:55 PM, David Combs wrote:
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.
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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
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