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From: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>
To: Sergei Gnezdov <sgnezdov@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mailing Lists (and high volumes) vs Newsgroups
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Sergei Gnezdov wrote:

> Although I've been using FreeBSD for several years, I have not been
> active with mailing lists at all.  I preferred to use newsgroups search
> and a little bit of posting.
>
> I am wondering, why mailing list is the official support mechanism (as
> opposed to newsgroups)?  Ruby seems to be supported through newsgroups
> quite nicely.

You mention Gnus as your newsreader. Try using it for mail then. It's
quite workable. Then you get all the benefits of news that you need.

/Andreas

-- 
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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A: Top-posting.
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