On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:26:40 +0000
(Steve Firth) wrote:

TheOldFellow wrote:

They've been called 'lists' since Darpa days,

No, that's mailing lists which are not news groups. Perhaps you could
involve in a little bit of beam-removing before attending to your
neighbour's mote?

Care to cite some evidence? I'm working from personal recollection,
which might be faulty, I admit. What about you?

I am NOT saying that News Groups and Mailing Lists are the same thing,
just that I distinctly remember News Groups being invented as a means
of user-management of Mailing Lists. Hence my point (the one you
snipped).

R.