From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 11:32:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1842937B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15444 invoked by uid 100); 18 Oct 2000 18:32:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14829.60590.199024.911505@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:32:14 -0500 (CDT) To: Matthew Rochlin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list vs. newsgroup? In-Reply-To: <73921434@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Because some of us prefer mail lists to newsgroups? Actually, a better question might be - where is (or why isn't there) a newsgroup gateway for the list? > (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. About the only problem I have is the loss of headers in the digest version, and that's minor. Of course, my mail reader quite happily bursts and threads the digests for me with a couple of keystrokes.