From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 12: 4: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uswgco35.uswest.com (uswgco35.uswest.com [199.168.32.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C4337B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egate-co4.uswc.uswest.com (egate-co4.uswc.uswest.com [151.116.25.51]) by uswgco35.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9IJ3r703171; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:03:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from duntx003.litel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-co4.uswc.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9IJ3qa09055; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:03:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: by DUNTX003 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <46Y6M6H7>; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:04:11 -0400 Message-ID: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E870846497B@fdntx001> From: "Cribbins, Jason" To: Troy Settle Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:57:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >In the bad old days of pop3, I had numerous filtering/sorting rules in place >to sort my messages as they came down. I hope I never have to do it that >way again. > Bad old days? What ISP do you have that doesn't use POP3 email? I have yet to find an ISP for any home user that uses anything but POP3. I only see IMAP in large companies like the one I work for. It would seem to me that pop3 is still very much alive and the choice of all ISPs I know....although I am not sure why. >-- > Troy Settle > Pulaski Networks > 540.994.4254 > >It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew Rochlin >> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:08 PM >> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? >> >> >> Just curious (and forgive me if this is one of those holy war kind of >> questions - I don't mean to be flame-bait). >> Is there a reason this is a mailing list instead of a newsgroup? >> >> (Getting 3+ digests per day (unthreaded) is kind of cumbersome >> and doesn't >> seem like the most efficient system....) >> I just joined the digest list a week or so ago, and it's been >> very useful, >> but a bit awkward to read through. >> Many BSD releated newsgroups get significantly less message volume than >> this list. >> Thanks >> ============= >> Matthew Rochlin >> 708 Nowita Place >> Venice, CA 90291 >> v. (310) 821-1819 >> f. (240) 220-5634 >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message