Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
Regarding debian-user-digest, try splitdigest debian package.
Have a nice day, Paulo Henrique
Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans (frodo@ccs.neu.edu):
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> On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mosl Roland wrote:
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> > 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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