USENET is also pretty stuffed with spam. At least on the mailing lists, we have spam filtering to keep the noise down.
Unfortunately, off-topic threads still make it through. ;-) -jh Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi, > > I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a > far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the > advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why > would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could > simply view headers on a server and choose the ones of interest? > > Jim Hall wrote: > >> Wesley Parish wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:00, Adam Peart wrote: >>> >>> >>>> With Thunderbird, you can also have it sort email by "threads", which is >>>> how I have it set for this mailing list & another mailing list. >>>> >>>> >>> Take it from me, sorting by threads is the only way to handle seriously >>> large >>> mailing lists. And making mailing list folders/directories so you don't >>> have >>> eveything piled on top of everything else. >>> >> Yup, that's how I read the lists ... threads, and filtering mailing list >> stuff into a separate folder. >> >> -jh >> >> >> > > > -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
