Re: mail vs news

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Xavier Maillard <lists.emacs.gnus@xavier.maillard.im> writes:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your feedback. I am considering to go « full NNTP » for all my
>>>> mailing-lists needs (as long as it is possible). For example, I know gnu.*
>>>> hierarchy offers many groups I regularly read without having to write a line
>>>> of sieve script or without subscription.
>>>
>>>
>>> You know about gmane?
>>>
>>> http://gmane.org/>
>>> Almost certainly you do! but worth flagging it up in this thread.
>>
>> I had a similar setup, but moved back to mailing lists because of
>>
>> 1) many groups (particularly but not exclusively google groups) I can
>> not post to via gmane but I have to use mail. And in many cases, the
>> posts to gmane simply disappear in these cases - any suggestions on how
>> I can solve this (posting to via mail instead of gmane), and I am likely
>> to move back to gmane for all mailing lists
>
> If I understand correctly, you want to automatically switch to a mail-message
> when posting on certain gmane groups instead of news-message, right ?
> Dunno if it could work but did you try specifying `gnus-parameters' for these
> groups ?

Yes - exactly (as pointed out in my question here). I will look into
these later today.

>
>> 2) archiving of the posts as a ressource to search is much faster when
>> using offline storage of the posts and notmuch for indexing. I can
>> search gmane from gnus as well, but I kind of prefer notmuch.
>
> I dropped notmuch entirely; too much « work » to maintain its index and I
> always forget the query syntax altogether ;)

Maintenance: I use offlineimap to sync my gmail account to a local
dovecot imap server, and after each sync, "notmuch" -new is called - so
no maintenance on my side.

query syntax: This is tricky, but I usually use simple searches which
are no problem via the emacs interface.

And I am sure the gmane search syntax is also not to simple?

Oh - one other advantage of mailing list: I can read them on all my
devices. OK - I have to filter them by using rules on the server (gmail
in my case), but than I can read them from all devices (gnus, web gmail,
iPhone, whatever I use t access my gmail account).


Cheers,

Rainer

>
> -- Xavier.

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