A More Efficient Way of Reading Mailing Lists
I really like to follow the Zopemailing lists. Sorting through all those messages (even with rules to sort it all into different mailboxes) takes too much of my time though. I like to read, but I don't participate too often. I found gmane.org a week or so ago. It's a sort of mail-to-news portal. I had thought of doing a mail to rss portal myself (so I could read stuff in my rss newsreader), but usenet news seems to work better (mostly because the majority of clients support threading, which is VERY important to me.) The search for OS X news readers began. I don't really like Mozilla. It takes too long to bring to the foreground, and it's the only app on my iBook that takes a full minute to quit if my system has done any kind of paging (which is pretty mush always since I keep at least 7 apps open at all times, and I only have 384MB RAM.) To be honest I want something more aquaish anyhow. After half an hour on VersionTracker I narrowed the field down to NewsFlash and Halime. Halime is nice, but it crashes (as of 0.9.0) when you get new messages from gmane.org. (It didn't have any trouble with the python newsgroups from a different news server.) So for now, I'm using NewsFlash to read my 5 Zope mailing lists every morning. Life is good. It could still be better though.
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