Lists have been assimilated into the Internet tribe, while Usenet newgroups maintain a guarded independence.

There is a gateway between SAS-L the list and comp.soft-sys.sas the newsgroup; when the gods are pleased each will be a mirror of the other, but the gods are often displeased.

There's no way to tell whether there are more newsgroup readers or mailing list readers, but my guess is that there are more mailing list posters. Perhaps Joe has statistics on this.

-- JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com Manager, Technical Development METRICS Department, First Health West Sacramento, California USA

>>> "Anthony Pitruzzello" <statman45@HOTMAIL.COM> 09/12/02 19:52 PM >>> I always thought that newsgroups belong to the USENET tribe while lists belong to the BITNET tribe. Admittedly, however, I'm not very well versed in this area.

----- Original Message ----- From: "DWilliams" <daisy@TAMPABAY.RR.COM> To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: SAS-L

> Hi to all, > > What does SAS-L mean? > > Thank you. > > DWilliams >