Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:32:45 -0600 | From | Tim Kelley <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time |
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> In the good old days we had newsgroups linux.* > Such a system has many advantages: The infrastructure already > exists to handle very large volumes of news, and has a response > time that is an order of magnitude better than the present > mail-based system. Secondly, one has news readers that know about > selecting authors and topics, killing threads, ignoring articles > that were posted to several groups and have been read already. > The current mail based system on the other hand will send me the > same message twice if it is sent to both linux-kernel and linux-scsi. > > So, a very fast and user-friendly system was replaced by a slow and > user-unfriendly system. That was a pity. Of course there was a reason > for the change - people have quoted the increased risk of receiving > spam once one's email address appears in a net post; also the increased > amount of junk in a newsgroup.
Why doesn't he just use INN instead of majordomo and run a private nntp server? Then you would have the privacy of a mailing list and the flexibility of a news server. You could separate kernel topics into separate newsgroups as well. This is much more suitable since people are downloading only the messages they want to read.
-- Tim Kelley tpkelley@winkinc.com 504.243.4682
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