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From: bob@monster.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: why I prefer newsgroups to mailing lists
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Date: 31 Jul 89 04:58:20 GMT
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I set up gnu.misc.discuss, gnu-misc-discuss@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu,
and their gateway on Tuesday afternoon.  As is my custom with any new
list or gateway I configure, I added myself to the mailing list so I
might catch any bounces or loops or whatever.  Then, on Tuesday
evening, I left town for the rest of the week, headed for a
non-computer conference at a non-net-connected college near Chicago.

I returned to 63 articles in both the newsgroup and my personal
mailbox (besides the other usual pile of mail), several list
bounce-o-grams regarding unreachable hosts and the like, and three
list addition requests that had been waiting for several days.

Erf... now I know why I prefer news to mailing lists :-(