-- oE5XG0hdaujDyzwFsGr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Why is there a ML -> NG gateway anyway? It seems to me that the existence of > the newsgroup node pretty much defeats the advantages of being able to govern > a mailing list. Why not just use the newsgroup and kill the mailing list? > Or switch to a message board perhaps, and leave ruby-core as a mailing list? Because I can't access NNTP except via very delayed web interfaces, and I cannot post at all. However, if I were to be scanning for archives of messages about any language, comp.lang.* is where I would start. I think it makes sense. [I also get a bit of spam because I post to Usenet via this address -- however, it's only gone up a few messages per day since I started -- not as big a deal, I don't think.] -- oE5XG0hdaujDyzwFsGr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/lq8ltP09exA3hooRAlVrAJ0dChi8mC9D+Lsw0KRJWVZL5gt3+wCeOPIj piaEi4kQmaaj9FffmutQUSM Pu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- oE5XG0hdaujDyzwFsGr--