[plug] Re: mail-list vs news

[William Kenworthy]

Thats two disadvantages

I like to scan the text of every email: newsgroups dont allow that to
happen easily

I like to keep email around, not have it dissappear at some undefined
point a couple of days later

I did use news intensely for 12 months or so a few years back, tried all
sorts of windows and linux newsreaders, eventually settling for knews. 
Since leaving that job, I no longer need those newsgroups and except for
a couple of forays where the info could not have been obtained
elsewhere, good riddance.  Too much spam, crap, irrelevance and just
plain bad manners, as well as not fitting the way I like to read my
information.

Yeah, can say the same about email, but overall email is amuch better
solution for *ME*

Each to his own,
BillK


On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 10:16, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2004 10:43, Michael Holland wrote:

> 
> You only have to download articles which you find "interesting".
> 
> Typically, newsreaders don't care if you don't read an article. If
> you don't look at something, it simply drops off the universe after
> a while.