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I have always been confused by mailing lists. It's just a jumble of message in my mailbox. I tried to use Mozilla's Seamonkey to subscribe to a mailing list, but it is not working and/or I have no idea what I'm doing.
I want to subscribe to this mailing list: http://fluorine.thesilentgroup.com/mailman/listinfo
I have already followed the instructions to subscribe with my yahoo.com email account, but I would like to view the messages and participate in the group through seamonkey, or any other application you can recommend. I already have two other newsgroups I'm subscribed to, and it's just a chaotic mess of emails in my inbox. There has to be a better (threaded) way of viewing and replying to these messages. It would seem that they could be grouped together by subject. I suppose I could create a new gmail account and see if they look better in that context.
I can't even get connected to the group. It ask me for the Newsgroup Server (NNTP), and I've tried fluorine.thesilentgroup.com as well as thesilentgroup.com, but neither connects. I'm not sure if my other settings are not right, or if the server is not actually a NNTP server. – AaronLS – 2009-09-01T04:50:40.847
Most mailing lists are run by, surprise, mail servers - not by NNTP servers. Often there is a mailing list manager package running it. Often, you will find instructions on the mailing list management in X-* headers in the messages sent to the mailing list. Failing that, the web site associated with the mailing list may have information on how to subscribe somewhere on it. – Jonathan Leffler – 2009-09-01T22:37:05.747