[NTLUG:Discuss] NNTP/News access

[Greg Edwards]

bkontr at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> 
> I don't think the protocol is the issue here, it's the
> fact that you get all of the mailing list mail in your
> inbox whether or not you are actually interested in
> all of the subjects.  With a newsgroup you can check
> the subjects you are interested in and follow the
> thread easier... all while avoiding HTML and huge
> messages.  My main peeve with mailing lists is having
> to sort through and delete the subject threads I am
> not interested in.  The other bad thing is that if you
> go on vacation or are just away from the computer for
> an extended period your inbox gets cluttered with
> cruft very quickly.  In this case, it is much easier
> and much more efficient to simply  go to a newsgroup
> and pull the subject threads you are interested in.
> 
> Regards,
> BK
> 

Mailman has this little feature called account management, newsgroups don't.

You can ask it to send you digests.  One mail message that you can page 
down skipping content you don't want to read.

You can tell it that your out of town and not to send you anything.

Archives that let you go scan by subject, author, date, yada-yada. 
Kinda like browsing a newgroup if that is your desire.

Unlike a newsgroup you have lots of options on how you get content from 
mailman.  I think it's called freedom of choice.

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