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

Hi :)
I think the Documentation group would love help updating the info about Gmane 
and other things.  Screenshots definitely help.  If you have time.  I think it 
might be the website group that actually revise that particular page at the 
moment but these things might move around later.
Regards from
Tom :)





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From: Ken Springer <snowshed@dishmail.net>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 17:07:10
Subject: [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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