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

[Michael C. Robinson]

Topics were very slanted on groups.google.com and very messy 
too I might add.  Very hard to follow where there were so many
headers in a lot of messages with nothing under them.  An
incredible number of seemingly incomplete sound bytes are
in the postings.  Perhaps one could follow it if the lingo
were clear.  It's disturbing how disingenuous people can be
to each other on controversial topics along with the
number of postings that seem to be fired from the hip so
to speak.  Some sociologists say that the further we get
away from direct communication, the ruder we get even if
the communication is taking place within earshot of 
others out in public.

I'm still not seeing how a mailing list is different from the
news system.  On the one hand, I suppose you can look at news
like a bulletin board or a newspaper.  Is the difference where
and how usenet sites get edited?

As far as clean verses non clean usenet sites, what is that
about in the ISC blurb?  Why doesn't it scale well, isn't 
that only if the old style directory is used to store 
messages?

      --  Michael Robinson