Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls

From	Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls
Date	2014-03-21 11:38 +0100
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On 2014-03-21, Chris Elvidge <chris@raspberrypi.mshome.net> wrote:
> On 21/03/2014 00:08, Aragorn wrote:
>> Many GNU/Linux and/or *BSD users
>> also use Thunderbird, but that one has the same problem: it's not a
>> dedicated newsreader.
>
> Why is that a problem?

I'm going to something like 2005 here, but what was happening then was
that all the development effort was going into the mail side of things,
not the newsreader side.

What I found in particular was that the offline news reading functionality
didn't work in the Mac flavour of Tbird.  When I did eventually persuade
that to sort-of work, it pull down the headers and I was supposed to
mark each and every post I was interested in to download the body.  There
was no "get the lot" function.

The idea of getting headers in a first pass and then the bodies you are
interested in was fine in the days of slow modems, but by the time I climbed
onto usenet modems were fast enough to grab the lot in one go, especially
in conjunction with my telco's practice of billing in 3 minute chunks
(3 minutes was plenty to get the lot).

This got worse with hotel wifi which could be bought in 30 minute chunks.
Nice fast speeds but half an hour wasn't enough to read and reply to a full
day's posts, so I wanted offline capability. Thunderbird failed totally
and absolutely miserably at that.

-- 
Paul Sture

"In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy
is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."

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Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 13:20 +0000
  Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-03-20 13:22 -0600
    Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 20:17 +0000
      Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-20 20:23 +0000
      Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-03-20 13:32 -0800
        Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-20 23:20 +0000
        Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-21 01:08 +0100
          Usenet clients: knode, other RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 09:03 +0000
            Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-03-21 07:58 -0500
              Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-21 15:26 +0100
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-21 18:03 +0000
                20 Years of September (was Re: Usenet clients: knode, other) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 20:52 +0000
                Re: 20 Years of September (was Re: Usenet clients: knode, other) Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-22 02:02 +0100
                Re: 20 Years of September Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-03-29 16:47 +0200
                Re: 20 Years of September (was Re: Usenet clients: knode, other) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-23 15:07 +0000
                Re: 20 Years of September (was Re: Usenet clients: knode, other) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-23 16:10 +0000
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-21 21:47 +0000
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-22 10:46 +0100
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-22 12:36 +0000
              Re: Usenet clients: knode, other "G. Paul Ziemba" <paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu> - 2014-03-21 16:15 +0000
            Re: Usenet clients: knode, other john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-03-25 11:34 -0800
            Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Shehu Dikko <unreachable@destination.invalid> - 2014-04-04 13:36 +0000
              Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Shehu Dikko <unreachable@destination.invalid> - 2014-04-04 14:03 +0000
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 15:14 +0000
                Re: Usenet clients: knode, other Shehu Dikko <unreachable@destination.invalid> - 2014-04-05 10:25 +0000
          Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Chris Elvidge <chris@raspberrypi.mshome.net> - 2014-03-21 09:41 +0000
            Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-21 10:04 +0000
            Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-21 11:38 +0100
            Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-21 15:23 +0000
            Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-21 18:01 +0000
              Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2014-03-21 14:26 -0700
                Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-22 03:06 +0000
                Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-03-22 12:34 +0000
                Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-03-25 08:54 -0700
        Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Philip Shaw <jnufcvyvuc@tznvy.pbz> - 2014-04-02 03:21 +0000
    Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-20 20:22 +0000
      Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-20 22:50 +0000
        Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 09:22 +0000
  Re: Full Disclosure mailing list buried by trolls wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 19:50 +0000

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