On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 22:11 +0100, Outway wrote: > I don't see in what way a mailing list is superior to a newsgroup. But I > do see several advantages of a newsgroup: > > * Clear thread structure (collapsable trees in standard news readers) Well, actually, that's also possible with decent mail clients. Crappy ones can't, and postings from crappy ones disrupt the threading for everyone else (for news and email). You didn't mention bandwidth saving: You download a list of headers, of what's become available since your last look, but you only download the actual body of message when you go to read it. i.e. If there's 2,000 messages one day, and you only want to read 2 of them, they're the only ones you'd fetch. Nor: Never receive spam in your personal mail, since you don't have to expose your email address when posting to a news server. Some servers will accept no address, others insist on one (but you can use a blackhole address that you don't check for mail). > A newsgroup is no more complicated to set up from a reader point of view > than mailing list access. No exotic software is needed, the newsgroup > can also be web interfaced. In the past it could be a bit of a pain, if you found that you needed to go to more than one news server for all of your groups. But more clients are around that handle multiple news servers, and quite well. In general, I have preferred news to mailing lists, though it's been a long while since I bothered. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
