[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] Re: Mac people

On 6/23/11 9:22 AM, John B wrote:

Hi, John,

> Hi Alex
>
> One of the benifiets of emailers such as Thunderbird is that they have
> brilliant email filters built in to them.

  <snip>

> So very quickly afterwards, I created a folder just for
> [libreoffice-users] and I filter into that folder any email with that in
> the title.

I've hated every mailing list I've ever used, although there are few of 
them.  :-)  I find keeping track of which emails related to which, 
subject wise, very hard to do.  Frustrating, actually.

Likewise, I hate the basic way forums (the Nabble interface...  ick!) 
are set up.  The design usually wastes a lot of space on my monitor that 
rarely relates to finding answers to a problem.

I was about to unsubscribe, when I read an email about accessing the 
mailing list via http://www.gmane.org/.  It allows you to have 
read/write access to the mailing list, but the user "sees" a newsgroup 
style of interface.  And I use Thunderbird for that.  I really like it!

It not only gives you the advantage of your email filter, i.e. all the 
LO emails are in a "folder", they are also sorted by "subject" and 
threaded if you desire.

I hope this makes sense.  :-)  Feel free to send an email if you wish, I 
could then send you a screenshot if you'd like to see what I'm trying to 
explain.

To be fair, the Gmane interface is on the LO website, but it's not well 
explained, and for me wasn't easy to find.  I read about Gmane from the 
email list prior to finally finding the reference to Gmane on the LO 
website.


I put my OS info in my signature file via Thunderbird.


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.7
Firefox 3.6.17
Thunderbird 3.1.11
LibreOffice 3.3.2


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