Scared by the high traffic in the maillist

[Tim]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 03:51 +1030, Tim wrote:
> To be honest, for high volume message lists, news groups are the best.
> You've got clients which can sort by thread, automatically purge old
> articles, only show the most recent (allowing you to find slightly
> older, not yet purged messages, but not always have to wade through
> them), ignore and watch threads, and, probably most importantly, be
> able to post without having to expose an e-mail address to spam.

Forgetting one really useful thing NNTP is better at than mail, at least
if you don't have IMAP:  Getting a quick list of headers, without having
to download all the messages.  On a quiet list fetching everything's not
too much of a problem, but this one's quite busy.

I had a look at NNTP access to this mailing list as mentioned on here:
<http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general>, but every
groups is listed as moderated.  I didn't try posting to see how it
handled it, though.

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