On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Keith Moore wrote:
Many assumptions that are reasonable in USENET are less reasonable in
email. For instance, it's meaningless to talk about USENET discussions
that don't involve any newsgroups, but it's perfectly reasonable to have
email discussions that don't involve mailing lists.
True, but I thought we were discussing a problem that arises when a
mailing list *is* used for a discussion. In that situation, it does
become more like USENET, and users have similar expectations of the two.
Philip
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