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Re: mailing list vs "the futur"



On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:47:59AM +0000, Piotr Martyniuk wrote:
> On 2018-08-24, Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> wrote:
> > ed, awk and fast typing to filter those convos of interest "on
> > demand" ought be plenty for anyone ... sheesh!
> >
> > Man, when we wuz yung unz, we were -lucky- to even have cosmic rays
> > for editing.
> > https://xkcd.com/378/
> 
> No need to go for extreemes. Good NNTP client would do what you want.
> And for these who want learn nothing e-mail access was invented. :)

I am certain that NNTP is useful and has its place - but that's not
nearly so much fun as suggesting folks should simply "awk on demand"
to filter their 15GiB-and-growing set of emails - like, who needs
folders?

;)


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