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Re: mailing list vs "the futur"



Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Monday,  3 Sep 2018 at 10:42, Dan Purgert wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> That was my take on the matter as well - or at least it was a suggestion
>> that perhaps the debian lists "move away from these 'old' communication
>> channels".
>
> And it was reassuring to see that I am not alone in preferring nntp and
> other "archaic" (e.g. pop!) protocols.  I hate web based discussion fora
> and tend to avoid them (or find myself finding reasons to not go look at
> them very often).

Quite - I'm happily using gmane's(?) mailing-list-to-nntp gateway for
this; as I find it easier to keep track of things in slrn than I do in
mutt (mostly due to forgetting to check all of them).


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