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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!i-2000.com!usenet From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why mailing lists instead of Newsgroups? Date: 25 Aug 1995 16:07:04 GMT Organization: I-2000 Inc. - Internet Services Lines: 14 Message-ID: <41ksf8$g15@i-2000.com> References: <41j9q3$hq3@i-2000.com> <41kiji$7lr@news.belwue.de> Reply-To: freyes@i-2000.com NNTP-Posting-Host: freyes.dh.i-2000.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In Markus Baeurle <s671687@rghx50.gp.fht-esslingen.de> writes: >freyes@i-2000.com wrote: >>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 haven't looked at the FreeBSD mailing lists, but I also think that >comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc should be split into different newsgroups. It's >quite busy and it's rather difficult to keep track of it. I guess some people thinkthat some of the discussions from a freebsd questions newsgroup may be a duplication of some of the existing other groups. I think when a new user, like myself, has a question he/she will not know if this is a question unique to FreeBsd or if it is common to most *ix systems.