At 08:49 AM 4/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
     Scanning today''s messages gave me an idea.
I don't know if this has
been discussed before, but I don't remember it being discussed. 
It has.  It comes up every now and then on every mailing list.  What
usually happens is that those who want a newsgroup go off a create a
newsgroup, and the ones who can't access or don't like newsgroups stick to
the e-mail list, and the real die-hards follow both, cross-posting stuff
all the time.
     ClubWin! Charter Member (6) 
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