Tom, I will be happy to work with you on solving the problems. Over the weekend I discovered one more reason I like newsgroups over mailing lists. I do not have to wait until Monday to see what is happening. Mailing lists only go to a specific mail address. OTOH newsgroups are accessible from any computer with a newsreader. Since win98 includes outlook express this means most machines.
While I can understand if the groups prefers mailing lists because they are easy (and the group does not appear to be strongly computer literate). I really prefer newsgroups. Not only can you segregate messages by groups, but by threads inside groups (as long a people watch for thread creep). I scan twenty or thirty newsgroups a day for my job and I only read a small fraction of the hundreds of posts that appear each day. If the entire content of the newsgroups was sent to me as a mailing list I would be buried. Part of my frustration is the lack of computer experience with our group. They do not appear to have the concepts of netiquette, threads, avoiding flames, etc understood. Georgia's berating me for wanting you to split the group because you would have to spend money is one example and the degeneration of my attempt to see if a split to technical and social lists was worthwhile is another. The copying of any entire message with "me too" yet another (OTOH this is sometimes necessary with a mailing list but less so with newsgroups since the earlier message is still avialable). I do not like the idea of the group falling apart into lots of factions. I only put the newsgroups together Thursday because someone set up a second mailing list without devoting it to a specific topic. This splits the group and I just want to split the topics so I can read the items of interest to me. Also I receive the list at work and it is getting so busy that it is a disturbance. I could switch to the digest of course, but I still prefer newsgroups if they are not too technically challenging for the groups. Hell I can even create an ercoupe.flames groups<g> Anyway, I will be happy to work with you in anyway I can. David Abrams Galactic Industries Corp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did not send this to the list. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Laird-McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 5:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: David Abrams > Subject: RE: [COUPERS] Proposal for a working group > > > Count me in, Greg. > > I'm cc'ing Dave, as he was making an attempt to solve this as well.
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