From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott R. Godin" Subject: Re: OT: This forum Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:35:15 -0400 Organization: MAD House Graphics Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 13 16:36:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P62Rl-00007u-Ox for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:36:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752425Ab0JMOf2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:35:28 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42958 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316Ab0JMOf1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:35:27 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P62QP-00085t-1d for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:35:25 +0200 Received: from c-71-58-29-3.hsd1.de.comcast.net ([71.58.29.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:35:25 +0200 Received: from scottg.wp-hackers by c-71-58-29-3.hsd1.de.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:35:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-58-29-3.hsd1.de.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.0.7-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.7 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/11/2010 07:35 PM, Maaartin wrote: > I read this forum using > http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git > and it sort of works. Except that finding own old posting is quite impossible, > even when I try searching for the subject, and/or author, and/or pieces of text > in any combination. It finds some posting, but it misses others, whatever I do. > Except that I don't know how to attach a file. Except that I'd expect to see a > thread containing a new reply somewhere on the first page instead of on the > 14th. Except that replies to emails I get (answers to my threads) goes to their > author instead of to the forum. > > Is there a better way for using this forum/mailing list? However, I'd like to > avoid getting daily dozens of emails. I second the motion on using the nntp based interface. Works great in Thunderbird; there's also knode or pan depending on your IDE-du-jour, and if you prefer a console-based one there's always slrn (or even tin). Opera also has a built in newsreader. -- (please respond to the list as opposed to my email box directly, unless you are supplying private information you don't want public on the list)