Re: Responses to the list (oops)

From: John Hasler (jhasler_at_debian.org)
Date: 09/23/05

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:32:05 -0500

    Joe Smith writes:
    > Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what
    > newsgroups were invented for.

    No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of thumb
    on how large a mailing-list should get before it was replaced by a
    newsgroup.

    > This is supposed to be to reduce spam, but in reality just as much spam
    > comes to mailing lists as come to newsgroups.

    I see very little spam on the newsgroups I read. 

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