Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:16:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Henderson <javier@KJSL.COM> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Message-ID: <14829.52449.239643.635269@karenium.kjsl.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001018090345.018cf0d0@pop3.norton.antivirus> References: <bulk.91359.20001018022008@hub.freebsd.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20001018090345.018cf0d0@pop3.norton.antivirus>
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Matthew Rochlin writes: > Just curious (and forgive me if this is one of those holy war kind of > questions - I don't mean to be flame-bait). > Is there a reason this is a mailing list instead of a newsgroup? > > (Getting 3+ digests per day (unthreaded) is kind of cumbersome and doesn't > seem like the most efficient system....) > I just joined the digest list a week or so ago, and it's been very useful, > but a bit awkward to read through. > Many BSD releated newsgroups get significantly less message volume than > this list. I've been pondering about the benefits of having a freebsd hierarchy (ie, freebsd.questions, freebsd.isp, etc). Gatewaying the lists into the groups would be simple. But the technicalities of getting it done are probably not the issue. I expect some list members would be concerned about their addresses being easier to harvest by spammers, etc. But if there's enough interest, and consensus on this being a good thing, I'd be happy to set up the mail <-> news gateway here and feed the groups to whomever wants them via nntp or uucp/tcp. -jav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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