441 gmane.comp.lang.d.dmd.beta is unidirectional

Daniel Gibson metalcaedes at gmail.com
Wed May 11 07:06:42 PDT 2011


Am 11.05.2011 09:31, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2011-05-11 04:12, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On 2011-05-10 19:01, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:39:44 +0300, Brad Roberts
>>>
>>> <braddr at slice-2.puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>> I run a _mail_ gateway, not a news gateway. So, no, posting via nntp
>>>> isn't going to work. As to why I require registration, it's spam
>>>> prevention. I'm not willing to open up posts to non-registered users as
>>>> it's a very strong line of defense. I'm also not eager to trust
>>>> gmane as
>>>> an open relay point.
>>>
>>> Posting worked at one point. I hope you've disabled it out of practical
>>> considerations.
>>>
>>>> You can visit http://lists.puremagic.com/ to see the various lists.
>>>
>>> Bugger that... setting up an e-mail account/client configuration just to
>>> be able to report an occasional DMD beta bug is not worth it.
>>
>> Do whatever works best for you, but I've found that using the mailing
>> list
>> verisons of all of the various D lists works better than using a
>> newsgroup
>> reader, because then I can have all of the newsgroup posts synced via
>> imap.
>> When using a newsgroup client, it was much harder to know which posts
>> I had
>> read and replied to and whatnot when switching machines. I don't have
>> those
>> problems when using an e-mail address with an e-mail client. I am a bit
>> surprised that dmd-beta functions differently from the other groups
>> though. I
>> would have thought that it would be the same.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> I prefer to use the newsgroup versions and I've setup Thunderbird to
> store its newsgroups folders/settings in my dropbox folder via symlinks.
> Maybe not the best solution but it works.
>

I prefer the NG versions because they're faster, i.e. it usually takes 
some minutes until a reply is sent by the ML while it's almost instantly 
available via NG.
Obviously this doesn't help if the NG is just a frontend to a ML ;)


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