From: kifox AT hotmail DOT com (kifox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The mail archives
Date: 30 Aug 1997 09:44:11 GMT
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In article <5u60pg$914 AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA 
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>Flame me to a crispy black mass of carbon if I'm wrong, but aren't the
>DJGPP mail archives obsolete now that there're things like Deja news
>archiving all of usenet? (sans spam I hope) Everything in the list gets
>gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp which gets archived by Deja
>News. Or do the DJ archives offer some special advantage, DJGPP-specific,
>over Deja news?

Deja news is vastly overated. I rarely if ever use it. It's a pain to use 
and doesn't contain every article posted unless they're not honoring the 
no-x-archive header that people who don't want their postings archived by 
services like deja news use.