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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!cs.sunysb.edu!newsserv!stark!gene From: newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mailing lists Date: 8 Nov 93 22:49:06 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 26 Message-ID: <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov8224906@stark.uucp> References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <CGD.93Nov2125848@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CG3r20.Ko@genesis.nred.ma.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us's message of 7 Nov 93 03:29:58 GMT In article <CG3r20.Ko@genesis.nred.ma.us> steve2@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Gerakines) writes: >=>[ mailing lists vs. newsgroups ] >Chris G. Demetriou says: >it might be 'lame,' but a person *can't* do it all. >(i'd also dispute that 'newsgroups are obviously the way to go to get >"the public" involved... they're certainly the way to go to waste >people's disk space... 8-) >As an aside: what's the difference between a mailing list and a newsgroup? >the only one i can think of is that a whole lot of sites receive news, >whereas only interested parties receive mailing list mail. The other problem with mailing lists is that because there are so many of them now, my mailbox gets pretty cluttered. I spend more time reading mail and a little less reading news. Yow! I just tried subscribing to the FreeBSD-hackers list for the first time, but it was like turning a fire hose on my mailbox. I got over 120 messages since this morning for a total of about 500k. I gotta get disconnected from this fast. Maybe I can handle it if I redirect the firehose into a newsgroup, but definitely not in my personal mailbox. - Gene Stark --