Re: google groups and Usenet

[Robert A. Macy]

There is also yahoo groups, but they put their own self
promotion ads in there.  

It would be easier to "sort" incoming emails if the emails
had a preface on their subject line, like...

[octave] Re: google groups and Usenet

But it's not totally necessary.  I really have little
trouble telling the differences between personal emails,
the IEEE groups, others, and octave.   However, the debian
group looks a lot like octave in their subjects.  

              - Robert -

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
 "kooto (sent by Nabble.com)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Besides Google Group and Gmane, there is another
> alternative: Nabble.com - check out:
> http://www.nabble.com/Octave-f1895.html - like Gmane,
> it's a third-party archive/forum of Octave lists.
> 
> A lot of users prefer using emails and therefore mailing
> list is the way to go. But then there are users who
> prefer a web forum interface which avoids clogging their
> email box. Google, Gmane, and Nabble can all function as
> a forum-to-list bridge, meaning users who prefer web
> interface can use the web forum, while die-hard mailing
> list users can stay the way they want, and web and email
> will be in synch.
> 
> All three are free. With Google, there are ads. Gmane is
> ad-free. Nabble is ad-free.
> 
> I suggest Nabble because I am a member of the Nabble
> project. One of the reason we created Nabble is because
> we all subscribe to a lot of technical lists and it
> clutters email box and we find it difficult to search
> them.
> 
> Take Octave project for example, there are 6 lists, with
> Nabble, you can browse and search the 6 lists at the same
> place. You can also narrow your search to each list and
> narrow by author.  This is better than Google and Gmane,
> because with Google and Gmane you still have to browse
> and search 6 lists on at a time.
> 
> Nabble started archiving Octave lists a few months ago,
> so there may not be a significant amount of data. But
> still, you can browse it to keep updated to the latest
> stuff.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert A. Macy wrote: 
> > 
> > Google's "user interface" does not work well for me.  
> > 
> > I've never had a known problem with octave group.  
> > 
> > What interface are you referring to?
> > 
> >                - Robert -



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