Subject: mailing list vs. newsgroup

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 13:12:25 -0700 (PDT)

My views:

 -Both mailing lists and newsgroups have their places.
 -Having both, with bidirectional cross-posting seems desirable.
 -All of you will be happier if the UW team focuses on code-cutting
  rather than list management...

So this seems like a good direction to go, but someone else would need to 
volunteer to do it.

-teg

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From: Roger Gawley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 09:29:25 +0100 (BST)

The danger I see in all this back-and-forth posting is be that 
discussion would get even more desynchronised than it is now.

I still think you should take a look at mailbase.

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From: Ken Schriner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 06:55:02 -0500 (CDT)

> >  -Both mailing lists and newsgroups have their places.

As the manager of several lists and reader of several newsgroups, I agree.

> >  -Having both, with bidirectional cross-posting seems desirable.

Toolb-l (which manage) is posted also to a newsgroup (as a digest).  Cross
posting is not doable.  BEER-L is another list which is posted to a
newsgroup with no cross posting.  I don't know of any list/newsgroup that
has cross posting.  Let me know if you do.

> >   rather than list management...

I think they are doing a fine job of both :-)

> > So this seems like a good direction to go, but someone else would need to 

Ken Schriner                            ks06054@uafsysb
University of Arkansas                  [email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 07:35:06 -0700 (PDT)

> has cross posting.  Let me know if you do.

I *thought* that comp.mail.mime was cross-posted, but I could easily be 
mistaken on that.

-teg

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From: Mike Ramey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 07:47:48 -0700 (PDT)

I believe that VIRUS-L and comp.virus are bidirectionally linked.  -mr

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From: Elmar Kurgpold <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 09:13:39 -0700 (PDT)

How about keeping the mailing list going, and archiving the mail on a gopher
server?  I think that gopher is accessible to more people than is news. 

Anyone that watches the sun-managers list will know that any message that has
the word "summary" in the subject header is automatically archived on a
gopher server, so that all the answer-less questions are not saved.  There is
usually much less traffic on pine-info, so I am not sure that we would need
to filter out any messages, or if we did how it would be determined. 

The next question is, "Who maintains the gopher server?" If I had more time
on my hands, I'd volunteer to do it myself because I've been offered free
access to a campus gopher server with reportedly "gobs of disk space". 

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From: Roger Gawley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 10:08:02 +0100 (BST)

> server?  I think that gopher is accessible to more people than is news. 

I agree 100% that gopher is accessible to more people than is news. [Of 
course, if you used the mailbase programs, you would have a gopher server 
there.] Now I will stop saying this because we seem to be spending more 
time on how to deliver the message than on discussing pine!