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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Managing Google Groups headaches
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:41:16 -0500
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:23:06 -0500, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>Funny, I thought the sentiment of many here was, "let's just keep this 
>as a newsgroup, why do we need the mailing list also?" but I'll admit to 
>being confused about what people have been proposing for alternate 
>topologies.
>
	Count me on the newsgroup side -- though gmane access to the mailing
list may suffice as long as Google doesn't "peer" with it and
comp.lang.python is allowed to wither away...

	A mailing list would require me to somehow unsubscribe should I be away
from my home connection (my previous life once-removed had me on too many
3-4 week trips to the UK where I would not have access to my accounts) --
otherwise I'd be getting nasty messages from my ISP about having an
overfilled mailbox, and possibly having emails bounce.

	NNTP, OTOH, leaves messages on the server until whatever time-out they
are using, and when I return I can fetch all messages and read/reply
off-line [granted, I don't really go off-line with the DSL -- but with a
limit of 20-30 hours a month of dial-up, one would not stay online with
that]. It's plain text (for the most part), transfers fast, clients provide
full-fledged editors, and doesn't incur the lag for each page load that a
web-based forum does (especially on days when my DSL is <300kbps! I sure
don't need to have a slew of CSS files transferred for each message).
-- 
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