On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:22:21PM +0200, Andrius Juozapaitis wrote:
> hey,
>
> : > I am all for a newsgroup/forum.
>
> we're using newsgroup communication in our company quite extensively. being
> a former mailing list lover, the migration was not easy for me, but now the
> advantages are clear:
> -you have threaded messages in conversations
> -you can perform search on archives
> -you can easily follow only the conversations of interest to you
All this can be catched with a reasonable email client. And imho mail handling
in email clients is much more flexible than using news. I cannot speak for
windows users, but I am using mutt and procmail personally. And this really
rocks for all points mentioned above and some more (filtering, scoring,...)
Me against newsgroup!
Greets,
-billy.
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