Re: [MacPerl] News group

[aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)]

> 
> >I'd rather not see the MacPerl mailing list turned into a newsgroup,
> >but that is probably because of the way that I read mailing lists and
> >news. I read both using the nn newsreader, so that the mailing lists
> >are threaded just like newsgroups. The mailing lists have the keep
> >their advantage of being lower volume and remaining better focused.
> 
> I wouldn't like the disappearance of the mailinglist either, because I just
> hate reading news. Isn't there a way to do both, like the
> BSDI-mailinglist/newsgroup?

But then people reading the mailing list get the worst of both worlds.
The convienience of reading a mailing list with the volume of a
newsgroup.

Since the newsgroups would have a larger distribution than the mailing
list, you get the low signal to noise ratio, spamming, etc. It takes
no effort for someone to subscribe to a newsgroup. They have to have
enough interest on a subject to take the effort to subscribe to a
mailing list.

Anybody know of any mac e-mail readers that allow threading and
killfiles? Maybe someone should make a NNTP server that would grab
messages from a email spool. Then everyone could just point the copy
of va-newswatcher to their local mac to read the macperl
mailing list.