Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mosl Roland wrote:
> 2.) I am from Austria. $0.9 per hour
> for my telephone connection at
> night time, but $2.7 at day time.
>
> So I download newsgroups only
> in the cheap night time, and I go
> at day time only very short online
> for importnat emails.
>
> But because debian is an email
> list, and not a newsgroup, this
> technic to avoid high telepohne
> bills is not useable.
>
You could subscribe to the debian-user-digest, which will send you all the
messages posted to debian-user in (I believe) a single, large message.
This will allow you to download all the messages easily and cheaply at
night, but it won't help you to organize them.
I agree with you, though, that a newsgroup would be nice. But the current
format is working just fine for me. One possible problem with a newsgroup
is that there are a whole bunch of Debian mailing lists. I don't know how
much traffic the lists get, but Debian might not have the resources to
support a news server that gets that much traffic. (I don't know what
news server require for resources; I was just speculating.)
noah
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