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Re: Why not as a newsgroup?



On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500, you wrote:
>	Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the
>messages instead of have to download all messages whether you
>would have read them or not. 

Well, Netscape 4.5 can obviously do it and there are more than one
participant who reads Debian lists but with a Windows system (like I
do since my desktop machine is running NT).

One more disadvantage of mailing lists: They neither allow
crossposting nor setting Followup-To: for warping discussions.

Greetings
Marc

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