From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Mailing List or News group? 22 Jan 1997 20:50:05 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701221026.LAA02076.cygnus.gnu-win32@truk.brandinnovators.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: weiqigao@crl.com (Weiqi Gao) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199701220205.AA14635@mail.crl.com> from Weiqi Gao at "Jan 21, 97 08:06:25 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Weiqi Gao wrote: > Hans Zuidam wrote: > >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. Which is exactly why I prefer a maillist over a newsgroup. The quality is usually higher because there are fewer participants. Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".