From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:10:28 -0400
Date: 2013-04-04T04:10:28-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85eheqn2bv.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 515adb27$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
> In <857gktkiu9.fsf@stephe-leake.org>, on 03/26/2013
> at 04:27 PM, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> said:
>
>>email is definitely the future; nntp is an inefficient use of
>>resources.
>
> When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I use Gnus and Emacs; email is hardly my only tool!
>Mailing
> lists are fine as one of the available tools, but they are not a
> replacement for net news.
I've said they are, because they are more efficient; they use far fewer
CPU cycles, and less disk space, to accomplish the same task.
So you need to provide some facts to back up your contradiction.
What features of net news are not replaced by mailing lists?
> OTOH, I wish that there were internationalization RFC's for net news
> as there are for e-mail.
Another good point. And that supports my case; if people thought net news
had a future, they would have standardized it by now.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-31 10:11 Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-09-01 16:25 ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 11:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-09-01 7:31 ` stefan-lucks
2012-09-02 11:23 ` Stephen Leake
2012-09-06 6:04 ` Jerry van Dijk
2012-09-06 15:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-09-07 9:45 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-03 12:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-04 8:28 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-08 9:37 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-09 3:14 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-09 7:53 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-10 6:19 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-10 7:55 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-12 16:30 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-13 12:20 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-14 1:23 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-10-23 9:30 ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:27 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-23 21:56 ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:31 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-24 10:13 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-24 13:06 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-03-24 20:18 ` Gour
2013-03-24 22:34 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-25 7:21 ` Gour
2013-03-26 20:27 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-26 21:24 ` Gour
2013-03-29 22:02 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-30 5:54 ` Gour
2013-03-31 11:39 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-31 21:01 ` Gour
2013-04-02 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-02 13:20 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-04-04 8:10 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2013-04-04 9:21 ` Simon Wright
2013-04-05 8:35 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-06 7:43 ` Simon Wright
2013-04-04 9:38 ` Gour
2013-04-05 8:37 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-06 3:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-04-06 7:04 ` Gour
2013-04-08 7:43 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-08 8:53 ` Gour
2013-04-10 22:39 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-11 4:31 ` Gour
2013-04-12 10:56 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-12 12:07 ` Gour
2013-04-12 13:03 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-12 13:09 ` Gour
2013-04-07 2:34 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-04-10 22:38 ` Stephen Leake
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