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    From Pankaj Jangid@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 14:41:48 2019
    Mutt users prefer discussions in their mailing-list. I don't see much discussion here.

    Probably because mutt doesn't support reading news.

    Regards,
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    Pankaj Jangid

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  • From Dominic@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Sep 11 16:07:30 2019
    * Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> wrote:
    Mutt users prefer discussions in their mailing-list. I don't see much discussion here.

    Probably because mutt doesn't support reading news.

    Well some can patch mutt to read NNTP. I had this set up with
    neomutt once, but I'm not sure if there's a similar way to do the
    same to mutt.

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Dominic on Wed Sep 11 19:04:17 2019
    Dominic <[email protected]> wrote:
    * Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> wrote:
    Mutt users prefer discussions in their mailing-list. I don't see much discussion here.

    Probably because mutt doesn't support reading news.

    Well some can patch mutt to read NNTP. I had this set up with
    neomutt once, but I'm not sure if there's a similar way to do the
    same to mutt.

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

    My thoughts entirely, I use mutt for mail and tin for news.

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    Chris Green
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  • From Pankaj Jangid@21:1/5 to Dominic on Thu Sep 12 15:49:33 2019
    Dominic <[email protected]> writes:

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

    The only caveat is that you might have to learn a new set of
    shortcuts. In case of mutt it is good that it is fully customisable.

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    Pankaj Jangid

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Pankaj Jangid on Fri Sep 13 09:18:50 2019
    Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> wrote:
    Dominic <[email protected]> writes:

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

    The only caveat is that you might have to learn a new set of
    shortcuts. In case of mutt it is good that it is fully customisable.

    Yes, I *occasionally* forget whether I'm in mutt or tin but it doesn't
    happen often enough for me to want to bother changing key mapping to
    make them the same. Keeping with the default key-mapping means that
    when helping/getting help we all talk the same 'language'.

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    Chris Green
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  • From Pankaj Jangid@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Fri Sep 13 23:23:45 2019
    Chris Green <[email protected]> writes:

    The only caveat is that you might have to learn a new set of
    shortcuts. In case of mutt it is good that it is fully customisable.

    Yes, I *occasionally* forget whether I'm in mutt or tin but it doesn't
    happen often enough for me to want to bother changing key mapping to
    make them the same. Keeping with the default key-mapping means that
    when helping/getting help we all talk the same 'language'.

    That is true. I completely agree. I prefer default settings in most
    tools.

    --
    Pankaj Jangid

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  • From RS Wood@21:1/5 to Chris Green on Sun Sep 15 22:06:56 2019
    On 2019-09-11, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
    Dominic <[email protected]> wrote:
    * Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> wrote:
    Mutt users prefer discussions in their mailing-list. I don't see much
    discussion here.

    Probably because mutt doesn't support reading news.

    Well some can patch mutt to read NNTP. I had this set up with
    neomutt once, but I'm not sure if there's a similar way to do the
    same to mutt.

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

    My thoughts entirely, I use mutt for mail and tin for news.

    Mostly agreed, but mutt does some things very nicely that other news
    clients don't do. I use "l" to limit the message list to certain
    criteria very frequently. Gnus (emacs) does it; slrn (my preferred
    console newsreader) does not, that I'm aware of.

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  • From Pankaj Jangid@21:1/5 to RS Wood on Mon Sep 16 12:18:48 2019
    RS Wood <[email protected]> writes:

    Mostly agreed, but mutt does some things very nicely that other news
    clients don't do. I use "l" to limit the message list to certain
    criteria very frequently. Gnus (emacs) does it; slrn (my preferred
    console newsreader) does not, that I'm aware of.

    Yes this is really useful feature when we really want to catch up by
    reading through all the messages 50 at a time.

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    Pankaj Jangid

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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to RS Wood on Mon Sep 16 09:34:28 2019
    RS Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2019-09-11, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
    Dominic <[email protected]> wrote:
    * Pankaj Jangid <[email protected]> wrote:
    Mutt users prefer discussions in their mailing-list. I don't see much
    discussion here.

    Probably because mutt doesn't support reading news.

    Well some can patch mutt to read NNTP. I had this set up with
    neomutt once, but I'm not sure if there's a similar way to do the
    same to mutt.

    Nonetheless, most of the time it's better to use mail clients for
    mail and news clients for news, right?

    My thoughts entirely, I use mutt for mail and tin for news.

    Mostly agreed, but mutt does some things very nicely that other news
    clients don't do. I use "l" to limit the message list to certain
    criteria very frequently. Gnus (emacs) does it; slrn (my preferred
    console newsreader) does not, that I'm aware of.

    One nice touch that tin has is being mouse aware, you can click on
    groups, messages, etc. to select them which is occasionally handy when
    there's a lot on one screen.

    --
    Chris Green
    ·

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