On 08/25/2011 05:31 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 08/25/2011 09:33 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: ... >> Please, try to think about your statement again: is it really impossible >> to cope with web fora? It would be a pity to lose your valuable >> contributions in case the discussion arrived at the decision to prefer >> web fora for support. > > I participate in many, many mail lists on a daily basis & cannot > possible begin to imagine trying to do so if all were web based forums. > I also eliminate the need to fill my mailbox with messages from each by > utilizing nntp via the gmane.org server. That way I can easily search > the threads, see the new subjects headers, mark a thread as read if it > is of no interest to me, mark threads as read by date if I've been away > for a few days, tag threads by headers, and killfile a 'VENDAS - > VITALLY' if I wish. Further I can easily switch from this list to the > user list, etc., at the click of a mouse. And finally, if I wish to have > an local archive of the list, I simply set my nntp reader (SeaMonkey) to > download for offline viewing/sorting/searching etc. I can't do that with > a web based forum. > > Here is a sample screenshot: > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/screenshotgmanecompopen.png/
Added point on searching vian gmane.org/nntp. Very simple search on your email address appears to first appear in 2005. You may have posted prior to that using a different email address as the gmane.org archive goes back to 2002, but my point is that it is simply easy to search by Subject or Address with an nntp mail list setup: http://imageshack.us/f/571/screenshotrepointofview.png/ In all fairness, I also done one for mine circa 2006: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/sshrinkgmanecompopenoff.png/ Can you easily & quickly do that with a web based forum? Gary -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
