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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: rec.swl or rec.short-wave
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.214544.10116@rpi.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 21:45:44 GMT
References: <2685@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In-Reply-To: dong@walsh.harvard.edu's message of 22 Sep 89 15:53:00 GMT

In <2685@husc6.harvard.edu> dong@walsh.harvard.edu (Rui-Tao Dong) writes:
Rui-Tao> Recently, there is a mailing list called SWL-L, which is a
Rui-Tao> fine idea. But, I sometime hesitate to use it, knowing that
Rui-Tao> the message I send will flood more than 100 mail boxes
Rui-Tao> (200?). Also, I don't think that it got enough publicity.

This I just do not comprehend.  Do many people avoid sending to a
mailing list because they don't want to "flood" a couple of hundred
mailboxes of people who have explicitly asked to get the list?  This
is somehow much worse in their eyes then sending to a newsgroup which
appears on thousands of machines?

Yes, I know mailing lists and newsgroups have many differences and
that even I prefer to read a newsgroup rather than a mailing list.  I
just don't understand the above statement; the point that was
addressed (flooding a lot of places with the message) seems to be
quite similar between both environments.

Dave
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