Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 1998 01:07:23 -0500 | From | Norbert Veber <> | Subject | Re: where is everyone or is linux stable ? |
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On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 10:54:21PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Norbert Veber <none@vtech.dyn.ml.org> writes: > > > How about a private news server then? ie. news.vger.rutgers.edu, it would > > be just as hard to find as the mailing list itself, and (correct me if I'm > > wrong) usenet is more efficient for distributing messages to this many > > people then email. Not everyone wants to read every message posted to the > > The main benefit of Usenet is that the messages are distributed across > a large network of servers. If all the readers of linux-kernel > pointed their news readers at a single machine, they would hose it to > the ground.
oh ya.. I just checked it out, and there are 1940 people subscribed at the moment, so maybe that isn't such a great idea :)
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