From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 13:19:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B44737B4F9 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spamer_death (user-vcauhhj.dsl.mindspring.com [216.175.70.51]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA28267; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20001018161439.007ef8c0@mindsieve.com> X-Sender: allenc@mindsieve.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:14:39 -0400 To: Matthew Rochlin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Allen Cleveland Subject: Re: mailing list vs. newsgroup? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001018090345.018cf0d0@pop3.norton.antivirus> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:07 AM 10/18/00 -0700, Matthew Rochlin wrote: >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. Using a subscription based news server, I find the following: Path: newscene.com!newscene!newscene!novia!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news-hub.c ableinet.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23! uio.no!nntp.uio.no!hrotti.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!internet-mailinglist Newsgroups: fa.freebsd.questions Original-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:07:52 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Matthew Rochlin Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Path: newscene.com!newscene!newscene!novia!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!News.Math.NC TU.edu.tw!freebsd.ntu.edu.tw!FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw!not-for-mail From: rochlin@mediaone.net (Matthew Rochlin) Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.questions Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Date: 19 Oct 2000 00:08:24 +0800 Path: newscene.com!newscene!newscene!novia!howland.erols.net!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nm aster.kpnqwest.net!blackbush.xlink.net!isar.de!news.muenchen.roses.de!news.c amelot.de!gateway From: rochlin@mediaone.net (Matthew Rochlin) Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions,mpc.lists.freebsd.questions Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Date: 18 Oct 2000 18:08:04 +0200 [Two for one there :) ] Path: newscene.com!newscene!newscene!novia!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usen etserver.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newspump.sol.net!news.execpc. com!newshub.sol.net!sol.net!newspeer.sol.net!ns.sol.net!lists.sol.net!not-fo r-mail Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions Date: 18 Oct 2000 16:08:07 +0000 X-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: rochlin@mediaone.net Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? -- Allen Cleveland allenc@mindsieve.com There is no try. Do, or do not do, but no try. -Yoda Hate spam? Try SpamCop: http://spamcop.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message