Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:16:17PM -0700, Marshall Savage wrote:
> Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into
> the correct separate email box. However it does nothing
> for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would
> considerably help. Both web based discussion managers &
> news reader programs handle treading well. For a group of
> this volume you would need a good discussion server & at
> least one public server that I know of just isn't up to the
> job. It's to busy for good service. I wonder why this
> listserver group hasn't long ago gone to a news/news server
> format for the much better accessibility of the threaded
> news readers. It doesn't have to be part of the public
> news system with it's well known loss of messages,
> advertisements, & harvesting of email addresses for future
> spam. If Debian can set up & run the fancy listserver as
> they have they could just as well instead run a private or
> semi-private news server that only has Debian
> news/discussion on it. There are a reasonable number of
> such already on the net. The existing searchable email
> archive could be just as good or better as a news
> archive.
>
>
> At 3/10/99 08:56 AM , you wrote:
> From: Nuno Donato <nunodonato@xoommail.com>
>
I agree with you, threading is a must for the debian-*
groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email.
GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you
_MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news
with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and run your
own news server.
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