Re: [MacPerl] News group

[spearce@injersey.com (Shawn Pearce)]

At 3:15 PM 2/29/96, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
>>
>> >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.

Nope.

We'd have to be insane to make it both, linked together.  The list would
become unmanageable, and useless.  If they want a newsgroup, fine, create
it.  But, I think that mailing lists are far more useful, and if you are
interested in it, you will get on the list.  Heck, I don't even READ news
becuase its so much of a pain to weed through garbage, not even relating to
the subject to find 1 message out of 20 or even 50 that is worth my time to
even read the subject line of.  Thus, my vote is to just keep the mailing
list by itself, and if a news group is made, fine, but lets not move all of
MacPerl discussion over to it.

Well, that's my $.0000001.

Shawn.

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