Re: Responses to the list (oops)

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

"John Hasler" <jhasler@debian.org> wrote in message 
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> Joe Smith writes:
> > Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what
> > newsgroups were invented for.
>
> No.  News was invented to reduce traffic.  There used to be a rule of 
> thumb
> on how large a mailing-list should get before it was replaced by a
> newsgroup.
Based on the history of unix being slowly posted to groklaw, Usenet long 
predates modern email.
In fact AFAICT e-mail was a spinoff of usenet. (although usenet of long ago 
was quite different than it is today.