On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM, David Robinow <drobi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> There's a number of advantages to news vs. mail. The biggest is that >> news spools generally keep a long history around, so it's easy to go >> back and review a long thread. > That can't be the biggest since mail stays around forever unless > deliberately deleted.
But your mail has only what you receive. You have to hunt down a separate archive of what was posted before you joined the thread. Advantage goes to news, but a slight one, and if that's the biggest, it's not a great advertisement. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
