From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emory Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: email vs newsgroup Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 19:06:32 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4E182C6E-8A8B-11D8-99C9-000A958A3AF4@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081559372 29915 80.91.224.253 (10 Apr 2004 01:09:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 03:09:22 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BC6zq-0001za-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 03:09:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC6yF-0000Po-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC6xm-0000KU-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BC6xF-0008RE-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [65.54.244.208] (helo=hotmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BC6xF-0008Qw-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 18:06:39 -0700 Original-Received: from 198.11.26.231 by bay1-dav73.adinternal.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:06:39 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [198.11.26.231] X-Originating-Email: [emory_smith@hotmail.com] X-Sender: emory_smith@hotmail.com Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Apr 2004 01:06:39.0635 (UTC) FILETIME=[1438DE30:01C41E98] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17737 hello, sorry about the silly question but im a little confused here and hoping someone could set me straight... i have been subscribed to gnu.emacs.help as a mailing list (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) for a couple months. over the last few weeks the number of messages has dwindled to a couple per day. this also seems to be the case with the archives at http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/ however, the newsgroup appears to have all messages. does the mailing list contain only a subset of what is in the newsgroup, and should i use the newsgroup instead of the mailing list to get all messages? thanks, emory