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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!i-2000.com!usenet From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Why mailing lists instead of Newsgroups? Date: 25 Aug 1995 01:42:27 GMT Organization: I-2000 Inc. - Internet Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <41j9q3$hq3@i-2000.com> Reply-To: freyes@i-2000.com NNTP-Posting-Host: freyes.dh.i-2000.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 As I am getting more involved with FreeBsd I am wondering why there are so many mailing lists and only two (that I have seen) newsgroups? I personally think that newsgroups are better. Even using digest the number of emails are enormous after a few days. For instance my computer had hardware problems for almost a week and when I got it back up there were 143 messages and most of them where from the hackers and questions digests. I have also noticed that there are WAY TOO MANY off topic messages on the hackers mailing list. My impression was that it was a technical mailing list. How about making Freebsd questions a newsgroup?