{"id":1060,"date":"2008-09-22T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2008-09-22T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:51:42","slug":"mysql-lists-via-nntp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/22\/mysql-lists-via-nntp","title":{"rendered":"MySQL Lists via NNTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/\">MySQL Lists<\/a> are available via <a href=\"news:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/\">NNTP<\/a>, so you can use your newsreader! If only all lists were like this.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the real motivations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After all acquisitions, things tend to change. We&#8217;ve been mostly nudged to migrate to using Sun&#8217;s email systems, and you can imagine its fun moving about three years worth of mail from one server to another. Especially, while you&#8217;re at the developer&#8217;s meeting, with lots of people sucking bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended method is to Ctrl+drag (OK, Command+Drag for me on the Mac) folders. This is called <b><i>pain<\/i><\/b>. My Sieve filters are also not importing without pain.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, I&#8217;ve unsubscribed from all <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/\">MySQL Lists<\/a>. But that&#8217;s the point of this post &#8211; you can read all MySQL Lists using NNTP (with a newsreader of course &#8211; Thunderbird is a good one, as is Pan or slrn).<\/p>\n<p>Point yourself to <a href=\"news:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/\">news:\/\/lists.mysql.com\/<\/a> in your newsreader and have a good time. Less email. Still the same great lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL Lists are available via NNTP, so you can use your newsreader! If only all lists were like this. Now for the real motivations&#8230; After all acquisitions, things tend to change. We&#8217;ve been mostly nudged to migrate to using Sun&#8217;s email systems, and you can imagine its fun moving about three years worth of mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-h6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}