From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 10:21: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postmarq.mu.edu (hermes.mu.edu [134.48.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0AD37B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marquette.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by postmarq.mu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2MYUT00.I1F for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:20:53 -0500 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3777e9375635.3756353777e9@marquette.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:20:53 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Re: RE: mailing list vs. newsgroup? X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My companies firewall/proxies (considering that I end up going through 2) do not allow me to read external newsgroups. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Potts, Ross" Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:12 am Subject: RE: mailing list vs. newsgroup? > I'm kinda glad it's a mailing list. My net admins have clamped > down on news > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Rochlin [SMTP:rochlin@mediaone.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:08 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup? > > 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. > Thanks > ============= > Matthew Rochlin > 708 Nowita Place > Venice, CA 90291 > v. (310) 821-1819 > f. (240) 220-5634 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message