[mythtv-users] New forum to discuss MythTV

Paul Mason latepaul at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 17:55:27 UTC 2007


On 07/06/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> Leigh Porter wrote:
>
> > But with a mailing list you receive every single message no matter
> > wether you want to read it or not. I expect most people dont bother
> > reading most messages on the lists they subsribe to. So for them a web
> > forum may in fact save bandwidth.
>
> Perhaps. But with a decent MUA you can sort the messages into threads,
> and not read the ones you don't want to. You can also apply rules so
> that if certain words appear in the subject lines, or even the body
> text, certain actions can be taken.
>

Personally I prefer Usenet which has the best of both worlds - text-based,
low-overhead messages but proper* threading with the ability to read headers
and choose which messages to actually download.

(*i.e. not subject-line based)

-- 
Paul Mason
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