Re: mailing list
Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
> > More of that, a news group is more organized. Thread
> > are follow up and it's easy to jump over some who
> > don't interested yourself. This will help people to
> > got an answer more easily and more quickly, and to
> > free a bit the traffic on this mail list (Debian-users).
> >
> (clipped)
> If you haven't yet, I suggest you look at pine. Pine can be set
> to sort on "ordered subject" and will behave like a threaded
> news reader. (I think it isn't "actually threaded" but I don't
> know the exact difference.) Pine makes newgroups and mailing
> lists almost equivalent. (some people don't like that design,
> though.)
Or, if you prefer, you can use GNUS. For me, procmail dumps
debian-user into the file incoming/mail.lists.debian-user.spool, GNUS
automatically adds those messages to a special mail folder,
'mail.lists.debian-user', which looks just like a newsgroup. I sort
about 10 mailing lists this way and read them just like newsgroups.
Some have auto-expire set, others do not.
This gives you scoring and threading for free. Without this, I would
not read mailling lists.
(Or, if you prefer command line interfaces, you may want to check out
MH)
Steve
dunham@gdl.msu.edu
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