[fpc-other] Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

[Henry Vermaak]

On 27/09/12 10:11, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 26.09.2012 16:00, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
>>> My main problem with it was that you can't
>>> keep track of read messages across different computers.
>>
>> Mobile users tend to use laptops, so no problem there. Alternatively,
>> use you smart phone and install a NNTP client there (iOS and Android has
>> NNTP clients).
> 
> I think Henry meant that differently. I'll describe myself as an example
> though I don't use NNTP except for the fpGUI fora:
> 
> I use three computers: my mobile computer, my computer at home and my
> smart phone to keep track of discussions on the FPC and Lazarus lists.
> Now with GoogleMail if I get new messages on one computer and read those
> messages they will be set as "read" on the server (IMAP!) and when I
> download them on one of the other they will stay that way. With NNTP I
> need to pay attention which messages I've already read and which not. At
> least this is how I understood Henry's remark.

Exactly.  NNTP makes it easy to miss things, never mind the time and
brain energy wasted to remember which things I've read.

Also with email, I can filter messages in one place, with NNTP I'll need
to set up filters with every client, if the client even supports it.
One more thing to synchronise.

Henry