Re: Posting to gname

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The recent flurry of activity is for those of us who use NNTP instead of
email. I particularly like NNTP because TBird doesn't interrupt me 45
times a day with an alert telling me I have something new to look at. I
look at TBird when I get a break in my flow and all the new messages are
easily viewed.

I don't use NNTP, but it sounds like my "mailing list workflow" is the
same as yours. The key is that I'm subscribed to the mailing lists
using a different account than my official work e-mail. In my case,
the mailing list comes to a Gmail account, which I view with a
browser; whereas my work e-mail is something set up on our local
Exchange server, which I view with Outlook.

I get real-time audible and visible alerts when work e-mail arrives
(as I leave Outlook open all day) but no alerts from Gmail (which I
open and close sporadically).

The thing that NNTP might buy some folks is better threading. I
happen to like the way the Gmail browser interface handles threading,
so NNTP doesn't offer me any advantage there either. If Thunderbird
threads e-mail competently (which I suspect it does), then in
principle, anyone should be able to get 90-100% of the "newsgroup
experience" you describe by using Thunderbird purely as an e-mail
client, eschewing NNTP entirely (assuming Thunderbird is not used for
their official work e-mail).

John Y.