Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:54:01 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?) Message-ID: <199505301454.PAA09024@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199505300953.CAA18371@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at May 30, 95 02:53:00 am
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In reply to Jeffrey Hsu who said > > Ooh, ooh. A chance to trumpet the Usenet theme for people who still don't > get it. > > To stretch the truth a little, it is a cruel hoax that (very large) > mailing lists are faster than Usenet. Sometimes I see substantial > Usenet threads that start and finish in less than 8 hours. Even > if it isn't true at this very moment in time, certainly as the > FreeBSD base grows even more, the mailing list delay will only get > longer. Mailing lists just aren't scalable to Usenet proportions. > This is just one of the reasons I'm in favor of moving to newsgroups > (with mailing list gateways for people who still want lots of mail, > of course). > Well, maybe you should visit Europe sometime. The Usenet delays are measured in *days* not hours, whole threads could start and end before I even get to see them. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/ Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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