People do not have to be in the same
room at the same time to get things done. Someone in New
York can post a message on a global mailing list or newsgroup,
and some hours later, someone in Bangladesh, who
was sleeping when the New Yorker posted, can respond.
The advantage of real-time communication is that it
shrinks the response time. With everyone (virtually, at
least) in the same room at the same time, questions can get
answered instantaneously.
In this chapter, you will learn about all these methods. We
covered the basics of email in the previous chapter, so you
know how electronic mailing lists work from the user??™s
end, but that??™s not all there is to know. openSUSE has three
packages that will manage your own mailing lists:
Majordomo, mlmmj, and Mailman.
Usenet newsgroups have been part of the fabric of the Internet nearly as long as email and
took hold well before the World Wide Web was invented. Although Usenet now has an
even bigger problem with spam and malware than email, there remain thriving and
helpful communities of Usenet readers and writers who can help you get answers to a
multitude of questions for the price of a well-crafted question.
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