Peter wrote:

>> I don't really understand the purposes of mailing lists anymore. There used
>> to be a reason for them, but I don't see any advantages these days over
>> NNTP.
> 
> The purpose of mailing lists was to evade flame wars and spam from the 
> NNTP groups ;-)

I don't think that has much to do with NNTP. This has to do with having to
sign up to be able to post and with being moderated. Both features are
possible with NNTP servers just as well.

I think the 'convergence' thing you mentioned is just what's happening, and
it's a good thing. No need to really gripe about the medium used... don't
like mailing lists: get it from gmane.org (or some other gateway)  :)

Gerhard
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