Re: Newsgroups vs mailing lists

[Ken Cline]

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> AAaaiiieeeee!  I hope the advent of a "real newsgroup"
> wouldn't spell the demise of the mailing list.  I stopped
> perusing the USENET about a year ago.  Even in thne "good"
> newgroups the signal to noise ratio was becoming too low
> to make the odd pearls gleaned worth the time it was
> taking.  I *like* mailing lists -- they are much less
> prone to "hijack" than newsgroups are.  

> By all means consider that I support the creation of
> newsgroups, but I'd like to see the mailing list remain as
> the principal platform for discussion.  Anyway, I sort of
> see the list as full of people I might like to correspond
> with anyway!

> Best regards,

>       Randall

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> 
> Well, I know of other lists that reflect the list.  I'm sure
> we could do something like that, right?  I agree completely,
> by the way.  I find it an incredible pain to read Usenet.
> 
> glen
> 

My $0.02 worth:

  Consider the following (non-hypothetical) situation:
     - Company A uses satelite service provided by
          Company B to download news
     - Company B goes belly-up :(
     - Company A employees become highly productive (???)

  This, of course, isn't a Hive problem... 

  I was just using an anecdote to voice my support for the
  continuation mailing list "format".

Ken.
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