> But can anybody explain why the linux-kernel mailing list
> (that has so much traffic that not many people will like to get it
> in their mailbox) and the linux.dev.kernel newsgroup
> (that is `nonstandard' and not carried at many sites)
> aren't replaced by comp.os.linux.development.kernel ?
Because the traffic of mailing lists such as this is likely to be at least
one order of magnitude less than it would be as a newsgroup. More likely
two or three. It'll be more accessible. Be afraid. ;)
lilo