[TYPO3-doc] Available on Google Groups?

[Jacob Floyd]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Martin Bless <m.bless at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello Jacob,
>
> >I prefer the google groups interface to interact with the various mailing
> >lists I subscribe to.
>
> What's the advantage of google groups?
>
> Maybe I missed that. What I mean: I don't like pure mailing lists at
> all. But I love NNTP and a real newsreader. And I appreciate the
> news://lists.typo3.org service very much.
>

I used NNTP quite a bit several years ago. I subscribed in Thunderbird and
enjoyed keeping track of things like that. But now, I need something
web-based because I mostly use my Google Chromebook where Thunderbird is
not an option. Plus, if I use someone else's computer, I want to be able to
quickly look things up with the same interface I'm used to, without having
to install Thunderbird or anything like that.

To answer your question, then, I use Google Groups because (1) it is
web-based, (2) it has a nice interface that includes a "Mark all as Read"
button, (3) I subscribe to other organizations' mailing lists there as
well, so it's nice to see all of the groups/forums/lists at a glance, and
(4) it doesn't make my Inbox explode when I want to occasionally send a
message to a high volume list like typo3-english.