Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:05:14 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote:
>The Debian mailing lists already ARE available a newsgroups but they are
>just not transmitted over the general Usenet. You have to ask someone
>that carries them. Also, postings to the newsgroups are not gatewayed back
>into the mailing list to avoid problems. They have been available this way
>for a long time ... I have been carrying them for almost two years.
This is not entirely true. I do know that they are archived on Dejanews
and that my work gets them and passes them on to its peers like any other
newsgroup. To me that qualifies as quite a bit of propigation. It may not
be on the level of the big 7, but it certainly isn't obscure, either.
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