Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org> writes:
> There *is* a better way. It's called ... get this, folks
> ... newsgroups! Now it's true that newsgroups don't support
> Reply-Preference.
Followup-to: poster is basically equivalent. It seldom gets set, but
it is there for those who want it. There is also Mail-Copies-To:
never, which unfortunately a lot of clients don't support.
> Many mailers don't even support threads, which almost all
> newsreaders do. And now that many newsreaders support multiple news
> servers, it's easy for most people to subscribe to a newsgroup
> that's only carried on a private server.
I agree with this since Gravity became freeware. (Not that I like
Gravity particularly or use it, but it is a decent, user-friendly
offline reader that works with multiple servers and doesn't cost
money; previously I do not believe there was one such reader
available. (MSOE: not decent; Messenger: not an offline reader;
Free Agent: no multiple servers; Agent: costs money; XNews: not an
offline reader; Gnus with leafnode: requires technical expertise; and
so on, everything failing on one criterion or another.)
I also agree that it may not be an important issue for this particular
list.
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