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list v. Usenet (was Re: A philosophical one)



on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:35:23PM +0000, Victor (vdemart@supereva.it) wrote:
> What's the relation(ship) between the list
> debian-user@lists.debian.org and the newsgroup linux.debian.user?  I
> mean messages posted to the latter are shown also in the former or
> not?  How about the fact that in this list you are compelled to
> subscribe while in the newsgroup no?

Usenet doesn't readily support a subscription model, though moderated
groups may approach this standard.

My understanding is that linux.debian.user is deprecated in favor of
muc.lists.debian.user.  This is reported variously but I don't have a
reference off the top of my head.

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