----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of walt Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 14:50 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)
> Beartooth wrote: > [...] >> The point is that I try to keep each server's lists down to few >> enough to obviate the kind of scrolling a/o searching that I have to >> do if for instance I hear of some new list and have to go through >> the All Groups list on Gmane or Giganews to get to it... > > I'm curious how many groups other people subscribe to. I > also have a few very specialized news servers which carry > groups that are not propagated to usenet-at-large. If I > total up all those specialized groups across all those > servers I might get as many as twenty groups, probably a bit > less. If I add the mainstream groups I subscribe to, I'd > wind up with maybe twenty-five groups at most, and probably less. > > I don't find the idea of looking at a list of twenty groups > annoying or inconvenient, so I'm asking for other opinions: > how many groups (in one list) are you willing to look at > without feeling annoyed or frustrated? > > Perhaps there are other reasons for wanting to keep groups in > a subdirectory/folder/collection? What about a MicroSoft > employee who likes to cruise the linux groups and offer help > to linux newbies? > She might well want to create a folder called 'antichrist' in > which to store her list of linux groups. (Dunno.) > > Opinions? > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users I only use Pan (0.14.2) for binary groups where 99.9% of the posts are multi-part. I use another reader for text and single part binaries. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
