Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

[john@dhh.gt.org]

Ed C. writes:
> As mentioned above (only download the subject lines), a newsgroup is more
> efficient for those of us who don't have the T1, or better, connections
> that the rest of you apparently have (how long does it take you to
> download 500 emails, Hmmm?).

I have a single phone line, a 28800 dialup connection, and a 100hr/month
limit.  I subscribe to 14 Debian mailing lists including devel and user.  I
can't read it all, but I have no problems downloading it.

I run a news server and download the dozen or so newsgroups I read via suck
and read news off line.  If the Debian lists were converted to newsgroups,
I would have to download them as well.  I doubt that I could get the Debian
news from news.debian.org as fast as I can get my mail from my ISP.
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