[ANNOUNCEMENT] copy-paste

[Michael Schaap]

Me too!   :-)

On 9-Mar-2007 16:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:58:40AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>   
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>     
>>> I actually appreciate nabble.  Since I can't post using my work address
>>> (partly because I don't want that stupid legalese trash appended to
>>> archived message, and partly because they block SMTP from non-work
>>> addresses), I end up using web-based fronts that still allow list
>>> posts.  Normally, gmane is better, but when gmane is down (and it is
>>> amazing to me how often they are), I have been known to post from
>>> nabble when I am at work and want to post on my break time rather than
>>> waiting for a few hours to when I am back home.  I will not argue with
>>> blocking nabble, as I agree that many clueless users tend to use it,
>>> and nabble's handling of posts is comparatively lousy (they won't even
>>> let you reply to all appropriate lists on a message that was originally
>>> cross-posted).  So this opinion is just food for thought, and you can
>>> safely ignore it if you want.
>>>       
>> I guess I'm being a little hasty in saying Nabble is garbage.
>> Email-web gateways are useful in some circumstances.  It's just that
>> Gmane seems to get everything right where Nabble gets everything wrong:
>> Gmane is a transparent gateway; Nabble has that silly banner at the
>> foot of every message.  Gmane doesn't seem to have any problem with
>> attachments; posts from Nabble users always seem to have attachments
>> stripped and turned into web links.
>>
>> I guess the real root of my concern is that the liklihood of a post
>> being from someone completely clueless that doesn't seem to realize
>> they are posting to a mailing list seems to be noticeably higher when
>> it comes from Nabble.  Maybe that's just because of the Nabble banner,
>> maybe it's because Nabble just attracts less-clued users, maybe it's
>> something else.  It's just a little irksome.
>>     
>
> FWIW, Nabble users are also determined to send bug reports to
> cygwin-apps and cygwin-patches.
>
> I think of Nabble users as akin to AOL users in the early days of
> Usenet.
>
> cgf
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