[Evolution] Re: Default change in 1.5?

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

I'd like to setup an nntp.ximian.com as well, especially once we make a
release of Evolution with nntp support.

The decision isn't up to me, however, so who knows.

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:31, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:33, Michael Wever wrote:
> 
> > Use Pan for mailing lists or newsgroups. It's far superior than evolution
> > in this respect and you don't get any of these problems.
> 
> Use PAN for mailing lists? How? Mailing lists use ... ermm ... mail.
> *Some* mailing lists also get distributed as newsgroups (gnu.emacs.help,
> for example) but I don't think most do and I'm petty sure the Ximian
> ones don't.
> 
> Actually (OT now) why do open-source projects use mailing lists? Isn't
> NNTP much better for discussions like this -- you can set up a
> newsserver, say nntp.ximian.com, which only carries local groups, i.e.
> ximian.evolution, ximian.evolution.patches, and which requires
> authentication for access. Then instead of signing up for a mailing list
> you simply sign up once for the newsserver. This would (a) cut down on
> the possibility of spam being sent to the lists, (b) cut down on the
> vast amount of email we all get, (c) make managing list discussions
> easier (newsreaders have good facilities for killing threads or authors
> you're not interested in, and for "catching up" (i.e. by marking
> everything as read) when you've been away on holiday, etc). By keeping
> the retention setting on the newsserver very high you would also have a
> permanent archive of the discussions (a bit like the mailman web
> archives) which you could access from within your newsreader simply by
> toggling "view read messages".
> 
> IMHO whilst spam is the number one threat to the utility of email by a
> long way, mailing lists are the number two threat. Most of us simply get
> too much email. News/NNTP/usenet was invented for this kind of thing.
> How come we don't use it?
> 
> Best, Darren
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.ximian.com