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On 5/14/24 10:49, Van Camp wrote:
> When I was working at different companies, I always wondered why all of 
> them use mailing lists instead of local newsgroups.

Ignorance and / or requirements.

Most people don't know about news groups.  Most of those that do know 
about news groups equate it with Usenet.  I hope that we can all agree 
that general unfiltered Usenet is not a good thing for businesses.

Most businesses had (access to) an email server.  Having (access to) 
that email server was a business need as in it provided tangible 
benefits to the organization.  Few of those businesses also had (access 
to) a private news group server.

People tend to make the tools that they have work.  Adding a little 
inefficiency to the solution at hand, email, was more efficient for them 
than acquiring (access to) another server / service.

> Local newsgroups just make much more sense, and make many things 
> easier.

I agree.

> Not sure if access to global Usenet would be useful in businness 
> environment, but local NNTP server is a good idea, in my opinion. I was 
> never in a position to propose any changes, though.

Agreed on the first two accounts.  About 20 years ago I mentioned Usenet 
to my counterpart, the Windows admin, and he was intrigued.  He added 
NNTP support to the Exchange server and we dabbled with it.  I think 
that he and I were starting to embrace it, but the other two business 
partners / owners were confused with how it differed from email and why 
it was better than email.  Not long afterwards, discussions gravitated 
back towards email again.



-- 
Grant. . . .