Re: [eclipse-dev] newsgroup problems

[Michael Bartl <zeddicus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Kim Moir wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The news.eclipse.org server crashed this morning around 6:50 am EDT and 
> had to be restarted with a hard reboot.  The newsgroups are again 
> experiencing the problems with indexes.  I have stopped the newgroup 
> service and it will be unavailable until I can restore them from last 
> night's backup. I anticipate this will take several hours.
> 
> The good news is that I archived all the newsgroups on Friday so they can 
> be read online.

Just curious: Is there any good reason why we are using newsgroups
instead of an email based mailinglist (which I would prefer very much)!

kind regards,
    Michael Bartl (creator of viPlugin)