From: weiqigao@crl.com ("Weiqi Gao") Subject: Re: Mailing List or News group? 21 Jan 1997 20:51:56 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701220205.AA14635.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.crl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: Original-Cc: X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hans Zuidam wrote: >> Just to add my two cents to all this, I seem to be in a minority but >>I much prefer the Mailing List to any News Group. >I second this. The mailing list is easier accessible and traffic is >not that high to warrant a news group. The biggest drawback of the mailing list is its obscurity. I guarantee that a news group with at least double the traffic because many more people will "stumble upon" the news group. If the current mailing list server is not 100% used to capacity, the mailing list could be a gateway to the news group so that identical contents appear at both places. That way people who prefer the mailing list can continue using it. And people who prefer a news group can get their will too. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".