wich is better mailing list or usenet newsgroup

[Linux for blind general discussion]

To be effective with usenet, you need to pick a news reader and learn it.
News readers are not low learning curves.  Newsgroups live in hierarchies.
Every sub-level under a hierarchy entry is separated by a period.  An
example would be comp.lang.c now that's two hierarchies comp and lang and
the c newsgroup lives under lang.


On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> I can't speak to the whole newsgroup thing myself, as I never figured out how
> exactly it was supposed to work. I do understand email and the web however, so
> these are my go-to resources when looking for information of any kind. The
> email list is probably the best option, as I just subscribe to the lists I
> want, and I see everything posted to the list. If I don't want to read a
> thread, i.e. if it's not a topic of interest to me, my email program allows me
> to delete the whole thread from my mailbox at the press of a single key,
> leaving everyone else's copies untouched. Those lists that store archives are
> especially good, since just like a web forum, I have the option of searching
> through previous postings, even those I have deleted, in case something came
> up that I need to find again. Usually a simple Searx will give me the answer
> from the archive, so I don't even have to try to find the archive website for
> each list. As I understand it, newsgroups are not archived on the web, and
> from what I could understand of their functionality, seem to be pretty much
> walled off from the rest of the internet, making usenet rather useless to me
> personally, unless I'm totally wrong about how it works.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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