Thursday, 18. October 2007

Usenet Newsgroups / Mailing List Relationship


The Usenet is founded on a pull paradigm, while mailing lists are founded on a push paradigm.

The Usenet and mailing lists are similar message sharing technologies, enabling one person to share information with many others. For example, the BITNET was a long-standing community of mailing lists that shared their message traffic with the Usenet under the "bit." hierarchy.

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