From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 17:11:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB9437B419 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:11:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A45BD38; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA28662; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:11:11 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAT18OK11478; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:08:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list References: <26279900@toto.iv> <15365.13670.568722.662388@guru.mired.org> <20011128210251.A444@lpt.ens.fr> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Nov 2001 17:08:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011128210251.A444@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: <6yg06ys7ss.06y@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan writes: > Mike Meyer said on Nov 28, 2001 at 13:05:10: > > > If people really want to read it, it's in the archives. > > But I don't want to fire up my web browser every time I read mail. > Especially if I'm downloading my mail over a modem and reading it > offline. You don't HAVE to fire up a web browser to read archives. Keep them on your own disk. For example, Gnus (comes with Xemacs) lets you keep archives for each of your mailing lists. You can set a max age for messages in a particular archive so it will delete old ones automatically. The archive is also nice for seeing a message in its proper place in a thread, so you can read what it was a response to. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message