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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
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References: <30fhpn$968@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Jul20.040243.5860@cs.cornell.edu> <SJA.94Jul20171747@gamma.hut.fi> <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> <30q5mo$3ce@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 07:59:27 GMT
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In <30q5mo$3ce@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <1994Jul21.082033.2057@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>,
>Liam Greenwood <liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> wrote:

>>	To many (me included to a degree...) mailing lists are 'closed'
>>and 'clique-ish'.  News groups are open forums.

>Which means low signal/noise ratio.  All of the serious development in
>Free/NetBSD and Linux is done in mailing lists because a person is
>generally more responsible in mailing lists than on the Net.

>It's too easy to be anonymous on the Net.  (Anarchy)

I't easy to be an anounymous reader on the net, but when you are posting
things there is really no difference between news and mailing lists.

Also, on the mailing lists I have seen (I am not on the BSD lists) there
was at least as much noise and flaming as on the Linux newsgroups.

IMHO the only valid reason for using mailing lists vs. newsgroups is
the network bandwidth you save when sending info to a small group.  When
there are a lot of people on the mailinglist, the situation is reversed
and you are wasting bandwidth.  (especially close to the server)

Rob
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