[vdr] Re: user mailing list

[Simeon Walker <sim@simland.net>]

Rene Hertell wrote:

> > > The world is split between people who want mailing lists and people who
> > > want forums / wikis.
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> > I never understood why mailing lists seem to be preferred instead of
> > newsgroups. With webinterface for the non-techies. Any ideas?
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> When using mailing lists, You can mark, sort, delete. etc
> unwanted/uninterested messages, and keep only the interesting ones.. Also
> you can search through your own archives...
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> But why not do a combination? I guess that most mailing lists (at least
> Mailman) can be hooked to a news-server... A news-server can then have a web
> interface, so I would say that this combination would make most people happy
> (maybe even those who prefer forums?).
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This list already goes to gmane.org from May 2003. You can connect your 
NNTP client to news.gmane.org and subscribe to gmane.linux.vdr or point 
you web brower at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/cutoff=14892

Sim

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