Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:18:39PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is a good idea, mostly because I don't see the
>> distinction between the newsgroup and this mailing list
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Funnily enough, I don't see much of a distinction between comp.mail.mutt
> and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe it's a "usenet thing".
> What do you think ?
Not reading those, I'm not sure. Usenet tends to attract more basic
questions from beginners, at least at first, and mailing lists tend to
have slightly more in-depth discussions, at least for most of the
technical topics I'm aware of where I read both the newsgroups and the
mailing list (comp.lang.perl.* vs. perl5-porters is a great example).
If we were swamped by basic questions that might have better been dealt
with in Usenet, I could see the point of that sort of distinction, but it
really doesn't feel to me like that's currently the case here.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
