At 2:45 PM -0700 on 5/13/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>> Alain : Yes, I know. What I meant to convey is :
>> why should one use the news protocol if one already
>> has electronic mail ? What advantages does one gain
>> by using news instead of Email ?
>
>Anthony: The ability to quickly and effortlessly loose massive
>quantities of messages to the Gremlins thereby disrupting
>communications as some people are left in the dark from an important
>message. You get, without any effort or want on your part, in excess of
>300 messages pleding for your to stare at some pornography, or, if
>you're lucky, to participate in a "100% legal" illegal pyramid money
>scheme.
>
>Alain : Is News THAT bad ?
Anthony: That was a fair amount of exageration. But there are lost messages,
pyramid money schemes, and pornography adds.
Anthony: Also, there are problems with "messages becoming stale" (it's
called "expiring", btw). If one does not read news for a while,
one could miss an important message.
Anthony: While your email normally waits for you to read it, some news
servers toss messages after a few days. Some don't have reliable
feeds (i.e., you don't get all the messages). Some don't have good
upstream feeds (i.e., your messages vanish into a black whole).
Anthony: And they all have spam. And lots of it.
