On Jul 27, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 20:56 Mon 26 Jul , Andrew Coppin wrote:
My personal preference would be for NNTP. It seems to handle threading much better. You can easily "kill" threads you're not interested in, and thereafter not bother downloading them. You can use several different client programs. And so on. However, last time I voiced this opinion, people started talking about something called "usenet", which I've never heard of...
Conveniently, all of the haskell mailing lists have an NNTP interface available. Add news.gmane.org as a server in your newsreader and subscribe to gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe.
I often find messages in this mailing list with such detailed and valuable information that I want to print them, take them away, and study them for a couple of days. From Mail, nothing could be simpler. Visiting gmane with Google Chromium, all I can ever print is the first screen or so of a pane. I am *sick* of web browsers that cannot or will not print the whole of a frame. You'd think Google Chromium would do better, but no. It does try to help by *printing* scroll bars, though... Mailing list => simple yes trouble no. Browser based => simple no trouble yes.