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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!cambridge.apple.com!epl@luwish.zko.dec.com
- From: epl@luwish.zko.dec.com ("Ed Luwish -- Far Fig Newton!")
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: Mailing list vs News Group
- Message-ID: <9208172022.AA06830@luwish.zko.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:22:15 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 8
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
- Original-To: info-mcl%cambridge.apple.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com
- Original-Cc: epl@luwish.zko.dec.com
- X-Mts: smtp
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- I don't think the gateway is bidirectional. Anything mailed to the info-mcl
- gets posted to the usenet, but nothing posted to usenet via news readers (like
- rn) gets mailed to the list. This ought to prevent multiple mailings.
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- Since more of us have mail than rn access to the world, and everything mailed
- gets distributed, it stands to reason that we ought to mail rather than post.
-
- At least that's my take on the problem.
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