"Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu> writes:
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Harald Milz wrote:
>
> > H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote:
> > > claim, I do feel it is his decision to make. However, without
> > > linux.dev.* I feel there is no justification for me continuing to
> > > spend time maintaining the remaining few linux.* gates. I will
> >
> > Isn't there someone to jump in? If all former linux.dev.* subscribers start
> > to subscribe directly to the vger lists, this will cause a) much more load
> > on the vger Majordomo server and b) much more network traffic.
>
> I see some logic in not allowing people to post, and esp. read the
> mailing list through usenet. Mainly, they will *EXPERIENCE* how much
> traffic this list gets, and will see what types of posts are sent,
> regardless of whether they want to or not. It is very easy to mark a
> whole bunch of news messages as read, it is more difficult to do so with
> mail ...
>
> -Seth
>
Aija, with Emacs GNUS Newsreader you can read mail as well,
kill threads as usual etc.
Ciao
Racke