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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
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Subject: Re: Fixing the unbroken
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Date: 8 Dec 89 22:22:15 GMT
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In article <19468.257f9076@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, sloane@kuhub.cc.ukan writes: 
*Does anyone know what the break even point is, that is, when does a mailing
*list become more economical than a newsgroup?

it seems to me that about a year ago, Chuq made an educated guess
that it was in the vicinity of 250 or 300 readers.  personally,
i find that handling mailing lists of over 100 people are a real
administrative headache (all the lists i currently run are much,
much smaller than this.)  some are less bothered by such a load
than i, though.

richard
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