I hate mailing lists

[William M. Quarles]

Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:14, M. Fioretti wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, May 22, 2004 22:03:55 PM -0400, William M. Quarles
>>(walrus at bellsouth.net) wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>"Free software is mainly developed on mailing lists. Mailing lists
>>>have many advantages over other forms of communication, but they
>>>have two weaknesses: It's difficult to follow discussions in a
>>>sensible way, and mailing list archives (when they exist) have a
>>>tendency to disappear over time.
>>>
>>>"Several mailing list archives exist, but these are all hidden under
>>>a web interface. Reading mail that way is not convenient. Reading
>>>mail as if it were news is convenient. "
>>>
>>
>>I don't know about mailing list archives disappearing over time. The
>>other "weakness", however, is in idiot mail clients and misguided
>>users, not in mailing lists. Any decent mail client *supports*
>>threading, so it makes possible to "to follow discussions in a
>>sensible way".
> 
> 
> I personally believe that the choice of a mailing list makes a great
> deal of sense over a traditional newsgroup in that the amount of spam
> can be limited in a members-only-post mailing list, whereas any spammer
> with a news-flooder can post to newsgroups.
> 

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but newsgroups can be 
member-restricted as well.