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echo: internet_uk
to: MARVIN RAVIS
from: WES LEATHEROCK
date: 1998-02-08 19:48:00
subject: Re: Newsgroups by E-Mail

 -=> Quoting Marvin Ravis to Alan Hess <=-
 > How do Internet newsgroups compare with FidoNet
 > echoes?  In an echo, every bbs that carries it gets
 > the same number of messages.
 MR> Some newsgroups make their messages available in digest format.
 MR> That is....maybe 15 or 20 individual messages are packaged into
 MR> one and be rec'd via E-Mail (NetMail if your BBS permits). To get
 MR> on the mailing list (subscribe) one must send an E-Mail request 
 MR> message to the specific mail server.
 MR> Perhaps others may want to post the E-mail address of some newsgroup
 MR> mailing lists for all of us to review.
        I believe you are confusing newsgroups with mailing lists.
They are two different things.
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