Subject: Re: newsgroup rather than mailing list ?

From: Roger Gawley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 09:43:10 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 30 Sep 1993, Mike Ramey wrote:

> Would it be useful to conduct the pine-info discussion on a newsgroup 
> rather than via mailing list?  (Heresy?)

NO (sorry, I cannot find any bigger letters on my keyboard)

Mail is available to all and fairly fast. News is available only to some 
and is variable but mostly slow.

                                            I might want to suggest to a 
> colleague that they look at a message (article) which I have deleted.
> With the mailing list, it's gone; with a newsgroup, it's available
> (at least for a while).  -mr

Have you heard of a program called mailbase? Written at the University of 
Newcastle upon Tyne (just down the road from me), it was conceived as a 
LISTSERV program for unix but is now much more. It functions as a mailing 
list expander but you can also archive the messages and read them using 
gopher. [Type gopher mailbase.ac.uk to see examples.]

The program is free to UK eduactional establishment because of its 
funding. [email-masked] could say what the position is for 
foreigners.

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From: "D.K.Brownlee" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 12:07:07 +0100 (BST)

Can we gateway it to a newsgroup, so that people who want to read it via news
can, and the rest of us can stick with email?

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From: "Michael A. Crowley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 08:20:26 -0400 (EDT)

> and is variable but mostly slow.

Mailing lists and news are not mutually exclusive and news, for some,
has very rapid distribution.  Many lists are sent into and out of news.  
I'm not sure which way I would end up preferring, but I wouldn't mind
having the choice.

mike