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RE: Newsgroup uk.tech.home-automation now created


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  • Subject: RE: Newsgroup uk.tech.home-automation now created
  • From: "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:41:34 -0000
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> The trouble with newsgroups is you end up reading the messages
> at work then the same ones when you get home. At least with
> email, one you have read it you dont get it again.

Depends on your setup in both cases. My list email goes to my home address
which I can pick up from work but do not stop going home as well since it
could mean messages I want to keep at home get cancelled by reading at
work.
So I effectively get everything twice from the mailing list. IMAP is the
only decent solution for this, but I currently do not have it on my main
account.

Usenet on the other hand I have no such problems with since I have my
systems setup to share a database showing what messages I have read so my
position appears to be the exact opposite of your own. There are also other
advantages of Usenet over an email system.

Mark.



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