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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
Subject: Re: Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:34:36 -0400
Date: 2013-04-06T22:34:36-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5160db3c$3$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85eheqn2bv.fsf@stephe-leake.org

In <85eheqn2bv.fsf@stephe-leake.org>, on 04/04/2013
   at 04:10 AM, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> said:

>I've said they are, because they are more efficient; they use far
>fewer CPU cycles, and less disk space, to accomplish the same task.

Mailing lists and news groups don't accomplish the same tasks.

>What features of net news are not replaced by mailing lists?

Distributed routing of articles is one example.

>Another good point. And that supports my case; if people thought net
>news had a future, they would have standardized it by now.

Standards for news move slowly. For that matter, consider how long
e-mail internationalization took, almost a decade after FTP and HTML.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31 10:11 Emacs Ada mode vs Ada 2012 syntax Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-09-01 16:25   ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-31 11:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-09-01  7:31 ` stefan-lucks
2012-09-02 11:23   ` Stephen Leake
2012-09-06  6:04 ` Jerry van Dijk
2012-09-06 15:46   ` Adam Beneschan
2012-09-07  9:45     ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-03 12:40 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-04  8:28   ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-08  9:37     ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-09  3:14       ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-09  7:53         ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-10  6:19           ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-10  7:55             ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-12 16:30               ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-10-13 12:20               ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-14  1:23                 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-10-23  9:30               ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:27                 ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-23 21:56                   ` Gour
2012-10-23 11:31             ` Markus Schöpflin
2012-10-24 10:13               ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-24 13:06                 ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-03-24 20:18                   ` Gour
2013-03-24 22:34                     ` Simon Wright
2013-03-25  7:21                       ` Gour
2013-03-26 20:27                         ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-26 21:24                           ` Gour
2013-03-29 22:02                             ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-30  5:54                               ` Gour
2013-03-31 11:39                                 ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-31 21:01                                   ` Gour
2013-04-02 11:12                                     ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-02 13:20                           ` Shmuel Metz
2013-04-04  8:10                             ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-04  9:21                               ` Simon Wright
2013-04-05  8:35                                 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-06  7:43                                   ` Simon Wright
2013-04-04  9:38                               ` Gour
2013-04-05  8:37                                 ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-06  3:31                                   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-04-06  7:04                                   ` Gour
2013-04-08  7:43                                     ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-08  8:53                                       ` Gour
2013-04-10 22:39                                       ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-11  4:31                                         ` Gour
2013-04-12 10:56                                           ` Stephen Leake
2013-04-12 12:07                                             ` Gour
2013-04-12 13:03                                               ` Markus Schöpflin
2013-04-12 13:09                                                 ` Gour
2013-04-07  2:34                               ` Shmuel Metz [this message]
2013-04-10 22:38                                 ` Stephen Leake
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