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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating ne
Message-ID: <2944@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:54:39 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2944
Posted: Tue Mar 18 01:54:39 1986
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References: <1073@burl.UUCP> <9300044@uokvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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Summary: that's right, mailing list software sucks

In article <9300044@uokvax.UUCP> emjej@uokvax.UUCP writes:

>       Mailing-list vs. newsgroup/notesfile SHOULD BE a trivium of implemen-
> tation; the INTERFACE should be identical.  

James is absolutely correct!  It hadn't really occured to me
until now why mailing lists are relatively unpopular.  When we have
tools of the intellegence of rn or even readnews for mailing lists,
the choice will no longer be a matter of user conveinience but
of sheer interest level.

See!  The crowd in net.general/net.followup are calling for their
own net.letterman/net.latenite newsgroup!  If only a mailing list
were as convienient to fullfill their wishes, without burdening
the rest of us!

The ardent proponents of mailing lists should seek to improve the
software which its readers would use!

(uh, I'm busy at other projects right now, thank you ...)
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

" ... that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new government ...."