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> I never understood why mailing lists prosper when newsgroups are mostly dead Spam, AFAIK. I don't know why, but spam on mailing lists seems relatively rare,
by Shish2k 13y ago
> I never understood why mailing lists prosper when newsgroups are mostly dead
Spam, AFAIK. I don't know why, but spam on mailing lists seems relatively rare, compared to usenet which was ~99% spam last time I looked.
- smackfu 13y ago> I don't know why, but spam on mailing lists seems relatively rare Mailing lists have a central place where all messages come in, and that can ban spammers. Usenet is distributed and messages come from everywhere, so any spam protections needs to be done in the client.