Re: mailing list versus newsgroup

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>The argument put forward in the past was that many people did not
>have NetNews access, but everyone has e-mail access, so a mailing list
>is better. I find this pretty hard to believe, so I'll ask now:

On the surface, the above argument seems reasonable (I suppose for those who do
not have NetNews it is *very reasonable*); however, there are ways around it.

We have the same problem in our newsgroup (sci.chem.electrochem), so we have
both the newsgroup and a parallel mailing list. In a rather low-tech fashion, I
serve as a human mirror between the two, but I was told there are softwares
available to do that automatically. I do not know how many people use our
newsgroup, but we have over 100 subscribers to the mailing list, so apparently
it is needed. Could something similar be arranged for faq-maintainers?

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Zoltan Nagy
Divisions of Materials Science and Chemical Technology
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois 60439-4837, USA
E-mail: nagy@cmt.anl.gov
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