Mailing list vs newsgroup

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel.squeaklist at bluewin.ch
Fri Jul 11 23:42:10 UTC 2003


Andreas Raab wrote:

> We've had this discussion half a dozen times by now (seems like it comes up
> every 12-18 months) and sofar most of the (outspoken ;) people on Squeak-dev
> seem to prefer the mailing list. I don't think it has changed since the last
> round of discussions.
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
>>[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
>>Behalf Of Guillaume Pothier

>>Hi!
>>I was wondering given the high trafic and wide diversity of 
>>threads of 
>>this list, if it wouldn't be more convenient to use a 
>>newgroup instead?
>>Guillaume


An my mail reader (Mozilla 1.4) nicely organizes the mails in threads
and has filter functions for moving mails into appropriate folders.

Celeste as well has functions to deal with the mails.

And the new bugfixing system is dependent on the mailing list.

Hannes



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