Re: Why Mailing list?

[Paul DuBois]

At 8:47 AM -0600 3/19/1999, Fred Lindberg wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:38:15 +0500, Faisal Nasim wrote:
>
>>Why does MySQL use Mailing list and not a Newsgroup?
>
>1. More people have access to mail then to news. All computer users use
>E-mail, but a limited subset uses news.
>
>2. It's much faster (at the moment, it takes < 2.5 min to try all
>subscriber addresses for the mysql list at least once, and 140s after
>message arrival at the server, 90% of subscriber MTAs have OK'd the
>receipt of the post). IMHO, this is important for support.
>
>A news group might be better for lurking, or for instances where it is
>important to get the opinion of a large number of people on a given
>topic. For lurking, consider subscribing to the digest (1-2 per day,
>mail mysql-digest-subscribe@stripped).


Not to mention, especially given the recent wave of complaints about
spam, is that spam is much more of an issue and harder to deal with
in newsgroups than on a mailing list.

The signal-to-noise ratio is typically much higher for a mailing list
than for a newsgroup.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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