web interface vs nntp

[Phil Meyer]

hawat.thufir at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm posting via gmane (awesome) but want to search the archives.  I 
> recall <http://www.fedoraforum.org/> and, IIRC, 
> <http://fcp.homelinux.org/> as well.  Of course, it now occurs to me 
> to head on over to <http://www.gmane.org/> directly!  :)
>
> I was going to ask a question, but think I'll google (?) gmane first :)
>
>
I use procmail to siphon of my mailing lists into their own seperate 
mailboxes.  Then I use Thunderbird to connect to dovecot IMAP on my 
system.  Then I subscribe to those mailboxes (they show on a list of 
subscribable folders).  Then I tell thunderbird to sort by date and view 
by thread on those folders.

It works like a champ.  Thunderbird has very strong search 
capabilities.  It allows searching headers and message bodies 
separately.  Very nice.

Currently I have this mailing list intact since '5 Jul 2006 '.  It is:
...  31M Aug 22 15:21 fedora
about 31 MB.  Thunderbird shows no performance penalty dealing with this 
and other large mailboxes.