Re: OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
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Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018@yahoo.com> writes:
> Your PC would carry the whole NG instead of the messages you're interested
> in. In the long run you would have two choices: Either set up a rather
> short expiry period (which would clear away the messages you might like to
> keep longer), or have a rather bloated inbox (or appropriate folders)
> which would stretch access time to disk, perhaps to the point it would
> take downloading it from the net.
NNTPCache is the happy middle.
> A third option could be setting up separate expirations and filters
> for each folder (list), separately marking each message you like to
> keep longer, and generally putting up with a galore of unnecessary
> toil.
It's not that big of a deal with gnus.
>>> I take it you're using POP3 to read your email. IMAP works basically
>>> the same way as NNTP, so there's no clear win either way.
>
> Is it possible to work offline with IMAP? I.e. download headers, mark
> some, than get the ones marked for download.
Yup.
> This may be a clever solution. But it is awkward to employ a server just
> to be able to circumvent limitations imposed by using wrong tools for the
> task at hand. NNTP is specifically designed for threaded discussions, and
> it has all the bells and whistles inherently needed for the task. Whereas
> with mail one has to twist and bend to get somewhere near.
Once again, that is not true. Mail also has a concept of threads.
Compare Followup-To in news to References in mail.
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