Hi!

15-Июн-2006 23:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

GH> I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a
GH> far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the
GH> advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why

     NNTP is only one protocol to distribute lists. And distribution over
email has its own advantages (for example, no depends from TCP/IP).

GH> would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could
GH> simply view headers on a server and choose the ones of interest?

     You may subscribe to digest.


_______________________________________________
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Reply via email to