[Coco] Re: Where's everybody goin'?
James Ross
jr at webross.com
Wed Mar 17 00:42:58 EST 2004
KnudsenMJ wrote:
>Mail is still more flexible and easier to work with for me. I guess there's
>a lot of variation in email and news readers, but I don't know why news should
>be easier. Email seems to have much less delay in it, whereas news servers
>tend to store stuff up, maybe for days, then forward it in bursts.
To quote http://gmane.org -- "Mailing lists have ... weaknesses: It's
difficult to follow discussions in a sensible way ..."
Perhaps there are email programs that can, but I have yet to find one.
>Anyway, I certainly hope that nobody goes off to this gmane as a substitute
>for this email list. As an addition, OK, but not instead of. --Mike K.
Thanks to Dennis for setting up the mail-to-news gateway with Gmane.
As long as this gateway is active, anything posted to the list is on
Gmane and vise-a-versa. It does not matter which one you use.
In fact, you don't have to use either an email or news client, you can
use the browser by going to
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
JR
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