On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Oct 28, 9:56, der Mouse wrote:
> > > Also - this bears repeating... do *NOT* subscribe to both lists!
> >
> > ...why not? I'd rather get two copies of stuff sent to both than no
> > copies of stuff sent to the oen I'm not on; that's why I subscribed
> to
> > both.
>
> Because it's not two lists. It's two views of the same list --
> everything posted to cctech is automatically seen by cctalk; everything
> *on topic* posted to cctalk is also seen by cctech. In other language,
> cctech is a proper subset of cctalk (and cctalk is a superset of
> cctech). Therefore, if you subscribe to cctalk, you see everything,
> and your posts go to cctech if they're relevant; if you subscribe to
> cctech, you only see part of the list traffic, but everything you post
> is seen by every subscriber.
>
> What's worst is posting to both; then *everyone* gets two copies of
> what you post.
It's sort of like Quantum Physics. Only more complicated.
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