Patrick Dean Rusk wrote:
> 
> For my part, I've never understood why people seem to prefer mailing
> lists to NTTP newsgroups.  Has there ever been a discussion about
> moving to a newsgroup?

Security and spam are bad with newsgroups. Furthermore, there are no
archives for newsgroups (well, you could see
http://www.groups.google.com/ as such, but I prefer to download a mbox
file and use my favoured mailer (mutt) instead of meddling with a web
interface).

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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