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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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