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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 08:44:52 -0800
From: "Alan S. Mazer" <alan AT elroy DOT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>
To: UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: writing Windows programs?
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> >Also, has there been any more effort in getting a newsgroup to augment the
> >mailing list?
> 
> Not everyone is so lucky as to HAVE news access, you know  (Yes, I _could_ get
> an account somewhere else and telnet there or use one of those posting-by-mail
> services, but I find a mailing list much more convenient.  Oh well.)

Yes!  But note the wording: "augment".  The point is (as was discussed here 
previously when I used to read this) to copy the mailing list onto a newsgroup,
not to replace it, which is obviously a bad idea.

-- Alan


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