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

Hi ken

On 24/06/11 4:07 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
> 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.
Doesn't the threaded view of emails in Thunderbird achieve the same as 
subscribing to gmane. I have all incoming email related to LO filtered 
into a folder and if it switches to threaded view it looks just the same 
as the view in gmane, but without the need for another account.
steve

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