personally I find the usenet more efficient since I don't have to download the complete messages, just the headers
Manos G John Lapeyre wrote: > > On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I > > > have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper > > > order. What do I do? > > > > This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this, > > See my reply to the post as well ! > > > and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless > > people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor > > to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution > > of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has > > been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy > > to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all. > > > > I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam > > and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? > > > I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, > but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like > this. Thats not much, and Im pretty fast with the 'D' key. I think that > the benefits outweigh the costs. I tend not to have an emotional reaction > to spam in my inbox, but again , for me its 50 to 1 or more legitimate > mail. > Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via > usenet ? > > G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
