[PLUG] News servers verses standard email lists...

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Michael C. Robinson wrote:

> To run or not to run internet news, that is an interesting question.
> It's billed as a way to ease pressure on software authors who'd like
> to answer a question once.  From the short description on the ISC
> website though it looks worse than email.  Is a news server what you
> use to set up your own mailing list or does plug do something else?

  News servers, such as inn, support Usenet. PLUG and others of us use mail
list managers (MLM) such as mailman, majordomo, ezmlm and others. Much
better, IMO.

Rich

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