[284] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Alexander Davis)
Tue Mar 5 00:00:38 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 04 Mar 91 20:28:58 -0500.
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 23:48:44 -0500
From: Mark Alexander Davis <mad@merit.edu>
> From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
> To: bob@aecom.yu.edu, com-priv@psi.com
> > if you subscribe to some of [the LISTSERVS] you see that they are
> > actively used by professionals for discussions of content within their
> > own field. As opposed to netnews groups which are practically all either
> > computer-related topics or frivolous topics.
I can't believe I'm going to add to this pointless bickering, but here goes.
Would somebody who has actually used the TCP/IP suite of protocols for
file transfer, mail, finger, your basic goodies and actually PREFERS
listserv over BITNET please tell me why (privately). I use them both
and see very few advantages to LISTSERV. When I want something, I want
it NOW. I don't want to wait for umpteen hops and have files spooled
between France and Israel because the line is down again.
I think people perceive that it is easier to set up and maintain mailing
lists through listserv. That's its one claim-to-fame as far as I can see,
and I don't even think that part is true.
But this whole discussion is really dumb. You use what you have access to. If
you have both, you use what you like. Just like your favorite microcomputer.
