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From: tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Thomas Krueger)
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Subject: Re: Fixing the unbroken
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Date: 11 Dec 89 13:44:14 GMT
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In article <2838147735@lewis.crd.ge.com> welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) writes:
>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

I agree. The list I run is 200 addresses _I_ deliver to, and who knows how
many via 25 redistribution lists. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to get
a newsgroup started (HINT HINT).

							- Tom

--
                   "A Veteran of the Psychic Wars"

Thomas Krueger    UW-Milwaukee College of Engineering    Electronics Shop
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