I'm only 14.You lose your time when you write me
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> De : Nick S Bensema <nickb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A : stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [stella] alt.atari.2600.programming - proposal
> Date?: lundi 1 juin 1998 23:50
>
> > The thing is, it's such a small club, I'd assume most anyone who wants
to
> > program for the VCS has already subscribed, so why go elsewhere? --and
if
> > you go, you'll just bump into the same posters, so isn't it a
duplication
> > of effort?
>
> Well, I'm aware of a few people who refuse to join the list for political
> reasons. I know most of these people from... you guessed it: IRC!
>
> On Usenet, their presence would result, inevitably, in flame wars.
> Not like the wimpy one-week flame wars we have sometimes now, but
> freaky stupid flame wars where every other message is "If Adolf Hitler
> programmed the VCS, THAT's the way he'd distribute it!"
>
> But that's what killfiles are for. Do mailers support a killfile for
> threads in a mailing list?
>
> > I think a mailing list is well suited for this kind of niche
> > subjectmatter, and biglist's threaded HTML archive is very nice. I
don't
> > even have to archive Stella messages locally because of this.
>
> Another argument against Usenet, since most of these IRC guys read the
> archives every now and again.
>
>
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