Monthly Archives: April 2003

NNTP, RSS, Gmane and Opera-M2

I’m a major mailing-list lurker. But getting all that mail is sometimes annoying; it can take 5 minutes for me to download all my mail in the morning. OJB put me on to Gmane. It is all good. I much prefer a news (NNTP) type interface than a mailing list. And speaking of NNTP, for subscribing to RSS feeds, I use nntp//rss. I [...]

re: Java’s checked exceptions were a mistake

Generics adds some syntax to help with this problem