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#! rnews 2267 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucsnews!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD Date: 26 Jun 1995 01:31:03 GMT Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3sl2ko$agn@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <3qfhhv$7uc@titania.pps.pgh.pa.us> <3sd2ml$16e@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3sdm7m$fh@park.uvsc.edu> <3sfcvp$12n@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3sjsod$kn6@ivory.lm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter Berger (peterb@telerama.lm.com) wrote: > 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." > > There is a huge cost in both time and CPU cycles in setting up INN > for the sake of receiving one group. That is a matter of opinion, relative to interpretation of "huge." I personally don't think that a small newsfeed is difficult to set up for a technically-oriented person running FreeBSD, or inherently resource intensive, but this has nothing to do with the issue I was addressing, which was whether or not there is something about a receiving USENET articles that requires a significantly better "net connection" than receiving mailing list messages. > Depending on your provider, there > may also be an additional monthly charge. I have pointed out that it is possible in extreme cases to use an E-mail gateway to access a USENET group. > Email has no such weaknesses. A couple of weaknesses of E-mail are first that some people do not have convenient access to a mail reader which will split the mail messages into the appropriate groups and thread the articles and present them with a GUI - but do have that for USENET, and second that some people have to pay extra to receive and/or store lots of E-mail, but not to read USENET. Larry