On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:02:03PM +0100, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > Secondly, I have a hunch that newsgroups seem to be more popular with > Europeans whereas Americans seem to prefer mailing lists. Is that so? >
Well, let me add my 2 cents (being a european). I experience that the general newsgroup will not hold my attention. After a while i don't check my subscribed groups anymore. I think this argument was already mentioned by someone else, who pointed out that with a mailing list i keep checking it untill i unsubscribe.. there's no extra trouble involved.. Furthermore, I think a newsgroup is much more vulnerable to spam and if there's anything i'm not waiting for it's more spam.. Thanks for your interest and regards, Koen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koen Martens) http://www.metro.cx/
