On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 08:37:04PM -0800, Martin Wilson wrote: > Andrew Collier wrote: > > Why? This conversation has come up before, but what advantages do you see > > to a newsgroup over this email list?
> The only advantage I can think of but its a major one is you can select which > topics your interested in to save you downloading messages you don't want. Not > all Sam users are interested in all sam subjects surely. As far as I know, most news clients do not do this, or at least people don't generally do it because just downloading all messages is quicker than trying to decide which ones you want. Nevertheless, if a news client can do this there is no reason why a mail client shouldn't be able to. imc
