Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>>>>>>"Simon" == Simon Kirk <Simon.Kirk at pinesoft.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> Simon> It's not a full solution, but I find the gmane.org archive
> Simon> *very* useful (although it doesn't go back fair enough :)
> 
> Simon> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
> 
> Simon> As far as I can tell that's an archive mirror of this list,
> Simon> along with nice threading, searching, etc etc.
> 
> Moreover, you can access the group with NNTP (Usenet news); good NNTP
> clients provide you with ways of marking threads as uninteresting,
> score people and subjects individually so that you see the interesting
> stuff first and so on (I've been using Gnus under Emacs for years to
> read this group and many others coming from mailing-lists).
> 
> In fact, I don't think I've been subscribing to public mailing-lists
> for a very long time; when a list is missing on Gmane, I fill a
> subscription request and get it as a newsgroup in hours.
> 
>   Sam


I agree with Sam, I found newsgroup a very interesting way to look at 
information without crowding your mailing box.

Hilaire