From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:04:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8omumyo.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yladvn7np0.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> I don't think it's the obscurity so much as having to take a positive
> action to join and participate in the mailing list. I think it serves as
> a low-grade filter that weeds out people with only a casual or browsing
> interest in the topic.
My main problem with mailing lists is that I can't read old messages
in the same manner I read new messages. If I get interested in
subject X, then I can just browse the 400 last messages in the
newsgroup, and use the normal Gnus searching functions. If it's on a
mailing list, I (more often than not) have to use some weird,
exasperating web interface to the old messages.
Pointy-clickety interfaces to mail are evil.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-19 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-05 19:36 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-05 19:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-05 21:00 ` news
2002-01-05 21:06 ` news
2002-01-05 21:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-05 22:12 ` news
2002-01-06 7:13 ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-06 8:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 14:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-19 20:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 17:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-20 17:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 17:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 17:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 21:33 ` Björn Torkelsson
2002-01-20 21:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 1:23 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-22 1:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 2:23 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-20 20:48 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-20 17:35 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-06 2:09 ` Russ Allbery
2002-01-06 9:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-08 12:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-01-09 3:06 ` Russ Allbery
2002-01-09 10:55 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-01-09 11:45 ` Russ Allbery
2002-01-19 20:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2002-01-20 5:06 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-01-05 22:47 ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-06 9:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 9:52 ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-06 10:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 10:23 ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-06 10:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 10:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 10:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 11:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 14:51 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-01-07 11:49 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-01-07 12:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-07 18:13 ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-07 19:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-08 9:06 ` Colin Marquardt
2002-01-06 12:42 ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-06 6:58 ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-06 9:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-06 13:14 ` Frank Schmitt
2002-01-06 14:01 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-06 15:38 ` Martin Thornquist
2002-01-07 7:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-07 8:46 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-08 10:31 ` Fabien Penso
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