On 2010-07-27 19:59 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Darrin Chandler wrote:
IOW, if people use the proper and well known features of NNTP it would be a better world than the one we have were people do not use proper and well known features of SMTP.
SMTP is designed for delivering messages point-to-point. If your email provider incorrectly marks half the list traffic as spam, you can't read it.
This has nothing to do with SMTP, and everything to do with your email provider being worthless.
If your PC dies and you lose all your email, you cannot get it back again.
Assuming you've never heard of list archives or backups, sure.
If you hit reply, it only replies to the one person who wrote the message, not to the list.
Every mail client worth its salt has a 'reply to group' function, which performs as advertised. In fact, I can't even name a single one that does not have this function.
And every person has to download every single message ever sent. Because, let's face it, all a list server does is receive emails and then re-send them to everybody.
This point is valid, but not really relevant since the advent of DSL. A week's traffic on linux-kernel is about 30 megabytes. Haskell-cafe is about 4.
If your mail system isn't operational at the moment when the email is sent, you'll never receive it and cannot ever get it afterwards.
This is not an accurate reflection of reality.
I constantly have trouble with this mailing list. Even gmane can't seem to thread it properly. But I've never had any trouble with threading in any NNTP group, ever.
Mutt seems to have no trouble threading it properly. I haven't encountered an issue with gmane and this list, although admittedly I don't use it often.
[Well, apart from that stupid Thunderbird bug they still haven't fixed yet. But that's a client bug. Use a different client and it goes away.]
The same can be said about email threading. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)