 | | Re: Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Todd Lehman (<Ft1G3z.Cz3@lugnet.com>) wrote at 03:23:59 (...) Just curious, why is email highly recommended? What are the benefits over NNTP? (speaking as a curmudgeonly stick-in-the-mud luddite :-) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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(...) Oh. Just recommended in this case and the other .announce groups...not for all groups. (Sorry for the confusion.) (...) The benefits of e-mail delivery are few -- compared to NNTP -- but one thing e-mail beats NNTP hands-down for is messages (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) ISP's (...) Also slower if you use POP3 and poll the mail server, and especially if you manually initiate all mail downloads... Of course it is still possible to be more timely than a newsfeed. Frank (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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