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In article <CG8Jyw.Msr@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland) writes:
>  [...decathena...]
>}4.  OLC & Discuss are very poor.
>
>I'll agree with you that Discuss is not worth anything, but OLC
>is very popular here (I count 22 questions in progress currently).

[We're using the Athena Computing Environment upon which DECathena is based.]

We use Discuss mostly for the "automatic" archival of mailing lists.  Discuss
is also used by people who don't want to subscribe to a list (and always
have lots of e-mail) but want to read transactions from the list at their
leisure.  In this way Discuss is great.  Especially when you want to look
back through the last n transactions to find something you missed.

OLC is VERY popluar here.  :->  Don't know what we'd do without it.

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>John
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>Project Vincent
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