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Re: [PHP3] creating a comp.lang.php newsgroup From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 01/10/99

At 23:36 01-09-99 -0500, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> I disagree. I suspect that almost all the dialup users in the world use a
>> POP system for their mail, and there's nothing too much wrong with that.
>> Yes, it means that you usually have to download more than if you had access
>> to an IMAP server, but most of us don't have one. I can't think of any ISPs
>> in my country that offer IMAP, and it certainly wouldn't be enough of a
>> reason to change.
>
>This just baffles my mind. I have been using IMAP for at least 6 years
>now. I couldn't imagine using POP and I certainly would never even
>consider using an ISP that didn't offer IMAP. That's like not offering
>SMTP or NNTP. Anyway, this is way off topic by now, and I do realize that
>there are a lot of ISP's offering Joe Q. Public services and doing quite
>well. I just wish Joe Q. Public would at some point demand something
>better. I don't know what I would do without my IMAP and LDAP enabled
>email client, and now web browser as well. Storing your bookmarks in a
>central LDAP database is very nice as well.

I personally still use POP and I'm pretty happy about it. I haven't
bothered to change, not because my Email server doesn't offer it but
because I don't have time and I don't want to upgrade my Email client which
I'm pretty happy with and had smoe problems with the new version.

I think creating a newsgroup which is linked to the mailing list would be a
good idea. I'm not quite sure if and how it can be done though. What I'm
talking about is that all of the mail on this mailing list gets also
automatically post to the newsgroup, and that all newsgroup posts and
answers also make it to the mailing list. This way, you would have full
access to all of the PHP related matters from either the ML or a news
group. Anyone know how this is done?

As a PHP developers and I don't mind getting so much PHP related Email. But
I think the average PHP user who is still using POP, probably doesn't like
getting flooded with PHP related Email's all day long.

Andi 

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