From: "A. Bryan Curnutt" <bryan AT Stoner DOT COM>
Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mail
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 14:36:40 -0600 (CST)

[Danger Will Robinson:  e-mail vs. news discussion, rather than
DJGPP discussion, is contained herein]

Anthony J. Duben writes:
> 
>   The first
> rule of mental health is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

If it weren't broken, people wouldn't have started complaining about
it in the first place.

The real problem is that the typical e-mail reader is not as
effective at handling large numbers of messages as the typical
newsreader.  Make a mail reader that separates topics into groups,
based on mailing list (if any), and that displays the messages and
allows people to select only the ones they want to read (ala nn or
trn), and the problem goes away.  The simplest way of implementing
this right now is to set up a mail-to-news gateway -- and whaddaya
know, that's what some people have been proposing...

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Bryan Curnutt                                  Stoner Associates, Inc.
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