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Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian



On Wednesday 01 September 2004 13:58, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:

> But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is for threaded discussions. I had once
> subscribed to several lists, and seeing how awfully inefficient it is for
> such things, I had summarily stopped all my list subscriptions, and I will
> not subscribe to a single list anymore, no matter what, as a principle.

That's the dumbest thing I've read today.  SMTP and NNTP are transport 
protocols - how your client handles the messages is entirely up to your 
client.

I used Gnus for a long time and it makes essentially no distinction between 
mail and news.  I had several "topics" with Usenet and IMAP folders 
intermixed in alphabetical order and there was no visible difference in 
their appearance.  If you've used bad mail clients, then it's time to find 
better ones.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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