Re: [MacPerl] News group

[Al Castanoli <afcasta@texas.net>]

On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:

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[apparently Marice van Peursem <mpeursem@knoware.nl> wrote:]

> > 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?

The starting of a newsgroup only requires following the conventions 
leading to a Call for Votes (CFV) and does not require the 
disestablishment of the mailing list.  

We already have both on the NetBSD-port-mac68k mailing list and 
associated newsgroup.  Both are handy, in that someone who just has a 
specific problem can post it to the newsgroup but the developers are 
mostly on the mailing list.
 
> 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.

Just because you're on the mailing list does not necessarily mean you 
have to subscribe to the 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.

Yes - I use Claris Emailer, which has filtering and "mail actions."  I am 
on several mailing lists, and find it handy to set up a mail action for 
one mailing to take incoming messages that have "off-topic" in the subject 
line  (in keeping with the conventions of that mailng list) and file them 
in the trash can.

Alternatively, there's always procmail.

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