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  • Evolution and nntp.aioe.org

    From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Wed Aug 31 17:12:02 2022
    Long-shot here, but I'm running Evolution (the email client) on my
    laptop and I tossed in a connection to nntp.aioe.org for the gopher and
    gemini channels. It works fine reading, but I have no idea how to reply
    using that tool. Anyone go down this path before?
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  • From xwindows@xwindows@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Fri Sep 2 17:51:16 2022
    On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, James Tomasino wrote:

    I'm running Evolution (the email client) on my laptop
    [...]
    I have no idea how to reply using that tool.
    Anyone go down this path before?

    GNOME Evolution? I don't have direct experience on using Evolution
    with NNTP; but I had use Netnews function in other email client software (Opera Classic, Claws Mail, Alpine). A characteristic common among them
    is that email-style "Reply" on a Netnews post would produce a Netnews follow-up post, unless explicitly configured/selected otherwise.

    This is the one of the main differences [1] from say... using old style Netnews client like SLRN or TIN where a "Reply" action would rather
    mean reply via email to the post author. Netnews newbies usually
    have the same confusion but in reverse when faced with traditional
    newsreader software.

    Have a good old Netnews time,
    ~xwindows


    [1] Another chracteristic is such desktop email client usually have
    their own local message cache, likely in individual-file MIME format.
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