On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Gour wrote:
Wolfgang Jeltsch (wolfgang@jeltsch.net) wrote:
The advantage of newsgroups over mailing lists is that newsgroups are designed for discussions among several people and therefore newsgroup software supports this kind of usage very well while mailing lists are actually a hack.
I do not follow newgroups, but can you please explain a bit what features are in newsgroup software that support this kind of discussion, which are missing in the mailing lists?
(Pls. do not see this as a provocation, I'm realy interested to hear.)
Well, you don't have to be registered to post on it, which is actually rather nice. Also, I think the archiving would work better. The current Haskell mailing list archives don't seem to run very fast. If it was a newsgroup, then you could use google groups to browse through old messages.