What Chuck said. I have been very happy with the response (virtually
instantaneous) that I get when using a newsreader versus email.
(and I use the built-in newsreader which is in the bloated M$ Live Mail
client, but considering switching to something with a smaller footprint...)
-sjl
"CRPence" wrote in message
news:mailman.2055.1365977241.7202.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
On 13 Apr 2013 17:18, David Gibbs wrote:
Folks:
Please be aware ... Yahoo is, once again, delaying mail for no
apparent reason.
If you are a subscriber, and you EVER get this message, I highly
recommend you change to GMail as soon as possible.
<<SNIP>>
Those using
news://news.midrange.com can safely ignore that message
because it is not applicable to NNTP users? Because /subscriber/ in
that context refers to the subscribers to the digests and\or individual
messages rather than to the subscribers to [only] the "News-Access", and
the delay affects only receiving messages sent *from* @midrange *to*
@yahoo rather than affecting messages sent *from* @yahoo *to* @midrange.?
I am fairly confident the answer to both questions is "Yes." And
therefore anyone using NNTP as their means to receive messages instead
of using *any* email provider as their means to receive messages, can
remain happy with their choice of NNTP over email. That would be just
one more confirmation of my bias in choosing to use the NNTP via
news://news.midrange.com over the mailing list. I purposely included
the link twice, for those who are [still] not familiar with NNTP; see
http://news.midrange.com for more information. Sadly, probably many
companies still block NNTP :-( even while allowing HTTP. However...
FWiW gmane.org shadows some of the lists on midrange.com and that
organization also offers an HTTP gateway to NNTP to access their copies
of the messages as well as an NNTP news server. To get a list of email
lists available from @midrange:
http://gmane.org/find.php?list=%40midrange
For this list, the midrange-l, the descriptive page is found here:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange
The first link on that page is to web\HTTP access in a browser,
presented in NewsReader-like interface, in a /threaded/ view, albeit
poorly IMO, and not well-ordered [what its numbered groups of messages
has no correlation presented], with no apparent sort capability. I use
a client-based NewsReader [Thunderbird], so I have no experience using
that /web/ interface. I just figured it may be worth knowing, to
somebody; esp. if there is no NNTP access and non-receipt of messages is
suspect:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange
The second link on that descriptive page is a link to the unthreaded
view; what is called a /blog-like/ view, divided into years, months,
days, and then pages within a day. That data is what also causes the
messages on the archive to be visible in duplicate from their site when
using a web search that is not specific to the site:midrange.com. But
IMO, the messages from there have much better formatting [with a few
quirks; e.g. "@" converted to "<at>"] than those on the midrange
archive. Note: Changing to the unthreaded view can be requested via the
pull-down on the upper right of the page while on the threaded view:
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.ibm.midrange
midrange.com
