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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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