Re: [pure-lang-users] Mailing list issues

[Ryan S. <rya...@us...>]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 00:26, Albert Graef wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> you can get mailing lists through Google Groups...
>
> AFAIR this is primarily a web-based interface, how easy is it to
> subscribe to these groups, get the posts in your mailbox and reply
> through your email client?

No problem at all. When you subscribe to a group, you get to say  
whether and how you want email delivery.

> I do like the simple and tidy web interface of that site, and the  
> tight
> integration with their search engine. The download page looks a bit
> simplistic, though, one big bin with everything. That's my main gripe
> with Savannah, too.

Like in GMail, they seem to be big on labels here, rather than  
folders. You can give each download a label or labels, and the user  
can sort or filter by labels.