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From: "Steve Tolin" <titan@vianet.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: mailing lists
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:02:45 -0400
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I had subscibed when I noticed the announcement just in case I was missing
something but as it turns out just more of the same.  I would much rather
have posting here so that even new members can benefit.  I also see a
problem of keeping all the Email messages on my drive.  What happens when my
drive crashes again, where do I get them back?   At least with these
newsgroups I can go back and get what I need.

Just my opinion.
Steve Tolin

pal wrote in message <35469E55.A55E0C15@hotmail.com>...
>What do you think about yaroze-dedicated mailing lists ?
>
>Personnally, I can't see why people would post to such a list rather
>than to the newsgroups. Moreover, I'm afraid that if discussions are not
>kept in one common place (and the newsgroups should be that primary
>place), some people might miss something, and some topics may be
>discussed twice without progress.
>
>For instance, there's been a discussion about appliances for the full
>dev kit on a list. I was really interested in this topic, but could have
>missed it if I hadn't subscribed. Now, if someone posts about the same
>topic on the newsgroups : 1) he'll start from zero, missing what's been
>said in the list, and 2) anyone who ever discussed the topic in the
>mailing list will be too lazy to repeat what was said.
>
>There's also been a discussion about whether to build up those mailing
>lists or not ; as it seems that people who didn't subscribe may have an
>interesting opinion about that, I'm starting it here too. (In fact, I
>guess that anyone who reads the newsgroups subscribed !)
>
>As I have no previous experience of mailing lists, I might have
>misunderstood something, if this is true please tell me.
>
>