Actually I would love to see all the ml's on developmentor on a newsgroup server partitioned into the groups that this ml will be split into. NG's are a more convinient way to maintain multiple subscriptions. The only reason I stay with this ML is becuase the high quality of replies and the high rate of replies.
Keep up the good work guys.. all of you On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 02:38:31 -0400, Oren Novotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perhaps the list can be maintained as one, but shifted to a newsgroup? >Newsreaders are much more capable than clients at dealing with a >high-volume of messages, and they can keep track of threads much better >as well... > >I agree with the previous replier about the ambiguity with some topics >such as ADO.Net. In other cases, there are architecture questions that >also span the range of topics. 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