Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:32:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Matthew Rochlin <rochlin@mediaone.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list vs. newsgroup? Message-ID: <14829.60590.199024.911505@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <73921434@toto.iv>
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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? 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. <mik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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