From: Simon J Mudd (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 15:20:32 EST
(One Way) writes:
> On a second thought, since it's an MTA forum I guess it's good to have
> a need to send out lots of mail (from the QA/testing standpoint).
> Personally, I found (http) news servers more convenient but I
> understand some people may disagree.
For me its a matter of convenience. I'm subscribed to a large number
of mailing lists and some days I just don't have time to follow them.
A web based discussion list may be prettier, but it's slower.
A local news server once setup expires articules automatically. News
readers are designed to let you filter/score thread messages
efficiently. I don't post back to the list with a news2mail script
because once I made a mistake and reinjected messages back to
linux-kernel. It's something I don't want to repeat and it is quite
easy to reply back to the list from my newsreader. The only thing I
miss reading by news is that IIRC nntp doesn't allow multiple headers
and so they get filtered out of the message. I don't think this can
be fixed. (?)
Of course it seems that once you get reasonably comfortable with a
setup, whether it's better or worse becomes irrelevant. I'm productive
with my way of following this list, and I'm sure others here are too,
though they do things differently.
Simon
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