[mythtv-users] [OT] Mailing Lists...

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Wed Dec 8 12:19:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 00:11, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> With a decent mail client, I can quickly scan large numbers of postings 
> (yes, even the content, not just the headers) and determine for myself 
> whether or not I'm interested in reading further.
> 
> I find a forum interface to be most useful on an occasional basis when 
> I'm searching for a specific answer to a question.  In those instances, 
> the gossamer-threads read-only forum serves well for me.
> 
> I agree that the best solution would be a mail <-> forum gateway, like 
> gossamer-threads, but one that allowed posting as well.  I've 
> occasionally seen someone offer to "look in to" setting something like 
> that up, but nothing has materialized as yet...

I would have thought that news posting would allow this.  I use to use
news a lot before they became swamped with spam.  It would be nice if
more lists were like that instead of forcing me to download loads of
email I wont read.

Forum are slow and hard to follow.

Paul




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