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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?)
To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu)
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:54:01 +0100 (BST)
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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.


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