"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Joe Smith writes:
Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what
newsgroups were invented for.
No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of
thumb
on how large a mailing-list should get before it was replaced by a
newsgroup.
Based on the history of unix being slowly posted to groklaw, Usenet long
predates modern email.
In fact AFAICT e-mail was a spinoff of usenet. (although usenet of long ago
was quite different than it is today.
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