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To: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis)
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> What are the thoughts on breaking this stuff out of mail lists and into
> news groups?  (At least there I can use kill files to eliminate the noise.)
There are news groups or is a newsgroup.  My personal feeling is
news takes too long to propagate.  I get much better response to the mailing
lists--I'm more apt to read a mailing list than a news group.  If I don't
think the subject applies I delete the messages w/o reading it.