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From: Russ Allbery
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:10

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blakenospam <blakenospam@newsguy.com> writes:

> Oh, and taking your comments out of context, like you did mine,
> "considering the newsgroups are mostly echoes of lists". Talk about
> lies, and damn ones at that.  What are you talking about? There are well
> over 30,000 'newsgroups' within the Usenet network, less than 100 of
> which are dedicated towards gateways to exchange message traffic with
> mail lists.

FWIW, your counts are very badly off.  There are *way* more than 100
mailing list gateways on Usenet.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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