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From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mailing lists
Message-ID: <1993Nov10.051831.20702@emba.uvm.edu>
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References: <jmonroyCFv39C.Iv1@netcom.com> <CGD.93Nov2125848@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <CG3r20.Ko@genesis.nred.ma.us> <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov8224906@stark.uucp>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 05:18:31 GMT
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[Maybe I should cross-post to alt.folklore.computers?]
In article <NEWSSERV!STARK!GENE.93Nov8224906@stark.uucp>,
Gene Stark <newsserv!stark!gene@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>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.
You think FreeBSD-hackers is bad?
I get:
FreeBSD-{hackers,bugs,questions,tz}@freefall.cdrom.com
cvs-commit@freefall.cdrom.com
ietf@cnri.reston.va.us
sipp@sun-roof.eng.sun.com
big-internet@munnari.oz.au
rem-conf@es.net
mbone@isi.edu
emba-kabal@emba.uvm.edu
milieu@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
...and probably some others I've forgotten by now. Today when I came
in at 1:00 to read my mail, I had 200 messages in my mailbox!
-GAWollman
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