Re: [MacPerl] Usenet: comp.lang.perl.mac ... ?

[Vicki Brown <vlb@apple.com>]

At 10:05 -0700 on 970611, Stephane Jose wrote:
> Personnally, I wouldn't like to see the MacPerl list becoming a newsgroup.
> I find it difficult to keep track of messages in a newsgroup and it is not
> as convenient to keep a personal archive of the lists' messages as I do
> with Eudora.

My thoughts exactly. I get into netnews EXTREMELY rarely; it requires extra
effort and time I can ill afford. Contrariwise, mailing lists just appear
automagically on my system and get autofiled so I have a good archive. (I'm
the person who periodically asks around if anyone has a good automatic
newgroup --> Email program; so far, no one doies (the offline readers don't
do what I need) .

I'm not even sure I would like to see a companion newsgroup, as this would
mean some things would go to the newsgroup, some to the list, anbd only
some to both. I'd miss a lot of information; I wouldn't care for that.

At 4:55 -0700 on 970612, Chris Nandor wrote:
 > But what about the idea of having a mailing-list<=>usenet gateway?  Then
 > those who like the convenience of a mailing list could not complain,
 > because it would still work the same way for them.  Then the main concerne
 > would be the type and volume of traffic that might ensue.

Now this I could deal with. I still wouldn't have to read netnews, and
anyone who wanted to (or didn't have a good Email client :-) could do so.

We might get new MacPerl users if we had a newsgroup version.
Moderation would slow down the junk newsgroups get and preserve the
signal/noise ratio. But... who has time to moderate?

Vicki

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