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From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mailing lists vs. news (WAS: Linux vs. FreeBSD)
Date: 25 Jun 1995 10:49:11 -0400
Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA)
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References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3sdm7m$fh@park.uvsc.edu> <3sfcvp$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3sjsod$kn6@ivory.lm.com>
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>In article <3sfcvp$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu>,
>Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote:
>I don't have a price cutoff for elitest, because I don't even use the
>term, and I don't see why sending, e.g., 50 2kByte mail messages is
>significantly less costly than sending 50 2kByte USENET articles, so
>consequently I don't see how USENET is inherently any more elitest
>than a mailing list or requires a better "net connection."
>
In addition to the overhead difference and oftimes cost between
setting up a TCP connection and setting up a UUCP connection,
many people can only get the latter. Hence mailing list can
get to far more people than newsgroups.
On newsgroups side of the balance sheet, I have yet to see
a mail reader that threads by subject.
-coranth
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