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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Programmers Mailing List
Message-ID: <178@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 30 May 90 06:46:15 GMT
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In article <18575@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer)
says:
>
>I would like to get some heavy discussions going about programming and
>I think that might annoy a lot of readers who are interested more in
>the general use of the machine. I have lots of questions to ask but
>am waiting for a pure programming audience to come along before I start
>asking them.

I'd hate to see a mailing list, mostly because the response time is a
bit more sluggish and because then we'd all have to keep up with both the
mailing list and the newsgroup.

Besides, no one gets annoyed when the content of a newsgroup is truly
appropriate to the newsgroup, even when the volume is high.

One of the beautiful things about netnews is that just about anybody
can join it at any time, and as more and more NeXT computers sell, more
people will tune in to comp.sys.next, adding to the pool of resources
(and of course, adding to the questions :-)  Also, people often ask the
question that I was just about to ask, and then I can just gleefully
wait for the  cavalcade of answers.

Also, I've never seen a mailing list keep up a pace nearly as good as a
newsgroup, and I am even the moderator of a mailing list right now
(with low volume, alas).

So, Bryce, what about all those questions you were about to ask ?-)

Glenn Reid
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us