From: Paul DuBois Date: March 19 1999 3:34pm Subject: Re: Why Mailing list? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/614 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. -- Paul DuBois, paul@stripped Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/