Re: Mailing lists Q

In article <[email protected]>,
POP <[email protected]> wrote:
< 
< "Mark Geary" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
< news:[email protected]...
< > In article <[email protected]>,
< > POP <[email protected]> wrote:
< >
< > < A mailing list could help one cull out the misfits ahead of time I
< > < suppose, and there is a lot of good information hidden away in the
< > < many mails, but ... sheesh, a couple days/weeks of lurking will do
< > < the same thing, and probably a lot quicker.
< >
< > Lurking where? Sometimes a mailing list will have archives of 
< > past
< ...
< 
< Lurking on a newsgroup, not a list.
< 
< Interesting bunch of responses; and reasonable uses, too.  Color 
< me a little surprised but hey, what do I know?  <g>

Ah, you were referring specifically to the Spamcop newsgroups as
gatewayed to mailing lists? There I agree. Dicussions on a newsgroup
are easier for me to follow than on a mailing list. However, generally
speaking, many useful mailing lists are not gatewayed to newsgroups
and when they are, the gatewaying is sometimes imperfect. (For
example, the gmane newsgroups, gatewayed from a number of mailing
lists, do funny things when I read them with trn.)

Mark Geary
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