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 don’t need yet another GUI for reading RSS feeds; every mail client I’ve ever used had a good NNTP reader built in. And that’s where nntp//rss comes in, it sucks down all your RSS feeds and presents them via it’s own built in NTTP server. (I don’t run it as a service/daemon, I just run it while I’m blog-reading).

So, with Gmane, my mailing-list subscriptions are much easier to manage. But if I was to recommend an email client to use if you subscribe to alot of lists, definitely, definitely check out Opera’s M2 client. Just… wow.

I’ve switched to Opera.

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  • http://textfuse.ex-okay.com/ James

    I really should check out Opera but I’d have to buy it. Can’t stand the banner adds!

    Chandler 0.1 was released. (Open source’s alternative to Outlook?) Might be worth checking out…

    http://downloads.osafoundation.org/chandler/releases/0.1/

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    James

  • http://textfuse.ex-okay.com/ James

    yeah… 0.1

    i tried it and at a very high level estimate… give it another 3 years.