On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Gour wrote: > Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The advantage of newsgroups over mailing lists is that newsgroups are > > designed > > for discussions among several people and therefore newsgroup software > > supports this kind of usage very well while mailing lists are actually > > a hack. > > I do not follow newgroups, but can you please explain a bit what > features are in newsgroup software that support this kind of discussion, > which are missing in the mailing lists? > > (Pls. do not see this as a provocation, I'm realy interested to hear.)
Well, you don't have to be registered to post on it, which is actually rather nice. Also, I think the archiving would work better. The current Haskell mailing list archives don't seem to run very fast. If it was a newsgroup, then you could use google groups to browse through old messages. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell