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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

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

The ability to come in after a conversation has finished and review
it. None of the (free) mailing list archives I've seen comes close to
News in general usability.

I experienced one project where the team embraced a local news service,
with great success, and another larger one where they had senior people
who were unable to cope with News. To be fair, I don't think they could
have coped with a mailing list either; just endless branching chains of
top-quoted waffling mail, coupled with inability to use ReplyAll.