[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 25 May 2017 05:20:11 -0400, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:

>each 
>of the FPC related mailing lists comes into my thunderbird and is filtered to 
>its own (sub)folder where the messages are read in threaded mode... it is faster 
>and available to me even when i'm offline... plus i have a local copy of all the 
>messages so i can search historically if desired...

Which is exactly how a newsreader works too, you download the messages
into the NR and then they are available offline forever and searchable
too.

My FPC message store reaches back to Sept 2003 and similarly for
Borland/Embarcadero Delphi lists (might go even further back on
these).
I have ALL messages from these places collected for future reference.

But my observation is that email is not the best way of managing these
things even if you *can* create some folder structure. Email clients
evolve a lot and suddenly your old store of messages is not readable
anymore. And if you like to switch mail client you are in big trouble.
Try to import Outlook PST files with millions of messages into
Thunderbird and you will see what I mean...
Both Forte Free Agent and Xananews store the data in a sensible
format...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden