From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Fri 12 Apr 2002 - 00:29:45 EST
Message-id: <87662yxq92.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>
>>>>> "duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> writes:
duncan> Newsgroups also have the advantage of maintaining several
duncan> days of messages on the central server, with easy
duncan> retrieval. If I see a reply to a message that looks
duncan> interesting, I often want to read the original: but that
duncan> is hard to find in old digests, and I've likely deleted it
duncan> anyway.
Depends on whose news server/spool. The ones I use expire after 48
hours, sigh...
Note that modern email packages (actually, it's been doing it for
many, many years) can present email in the same manner/scope as news.
The package is Emacs/Gnus, and while it's a PITA to set up, it does
everything else for you.
(including such useless features as presenting AltaVista queries as a
newsgroup, etc, etc...).
best,
-tony
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