I agree!
I suggested this about a year ago too. All they need is permission from
ccp4. The current system of archives is hard to use (and for mentally
deficient people like me, impossible).
Bill
Kay Diederichs wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I love CCP4BB, but I hate going on holidays because when I come back my
> Inbox is usually full with CCP4BB messages.
>
> The way out of this misery would be to have a mailing list archive which
> is presented such that it can be read with a newsreader.
>
> news.gmane.org offers this service. For all those who don't know this:
> it lets you read mailing lists without having subscribed to them.
> Currently there are almost 14.000 mailing lists hosted by gmane.org .
> To read one of this, you use your email client (e.g. thunderbird),
> - open an new "account" in the file menu
> - choose "newsgroup account"
> - enter the information about yourself
> - enter news.gmane.org as newsgroups server
> - later choose the mailinglists/newsgroups you want to "subscribe" to
> - read these in your email client as usual
>
> One can also post messages, but that needs an additional step, with
> confirmation emails going back and forth.
>
> May I suggest that the people who run the CCP4BB please consider this,
> and fill out the form at http://gmane.org/subscribe.php ?
>
> thank you,
>
> Kay
>
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