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Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian



Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:

It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand
why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have
no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam
collector anyway). But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is for threaded discussions.
I had once subscribed to several lists, and seeing how awfully inefficient
it is for such things, I had summarily stopped all my list subscriptions,
and I will not subscribe to a single list anymore, no matter what, as a
principle.

Using mail as a vehicle for threaded discussion, seems to me only good for
a tightly knit closed group. I can't understand why a public,
usenet-mirrored group should be implemented as a mail list. For added
gatewaying complexities? To download all the message bodies that I
wouldn't read?

Personally, I never liked the latency inherent in usenet.

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