little survey on email habits

[Derek Broughton]

Florian Diesch wrote:

> Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>> I don't understand why people use email for this list when there is a
>> perfect newsgroup, gmane.linux.ubuntu.user, for it. Using that it will
>> not clutter your mailbox, and using a newsreader like Pan you get good
>> treading. I started reading this list by email but soon switched to the
>> newsgroup, I find that much more comfortable.
> 
> Using Gnus and procmail it doesn't make much difference for me if it is a
> mailing list or a news group.

That's rather backward - you lose all the advantage of nntp by converting 
everything to email.
-- 
derek