- from 10 days ago,
On 21 Jan 2000 09:55:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan Arenson)
wrote:
> Some listservs have the option of only allowing subscribers to post to the list.
> Any non-subscriber posts get bounced to the list owner. Is this feature an option
> for this list?
- and then there was a comment, and a MESSAGE from ed-statl appended
to the whole message, which you will see on *some* of what you see
posted.
FYI - Edstat-L has always been linked to a Usenet group,
sci.stat.edu, so that everything that is mailed to Edstat gets
'posted' to the public group, and vice-versa. I think that the link
may have broken down for a while, a few months ago, so that the posts
were *not* the same in both places, but I think it has been fixed --
I don't read many *answers* where the questions never had appeared in
sci.stat.edu, which is something that did happen for a while. Anyway,
if the list has this public identity, it is a little more difficult to
'moderate' it, assuming someone had the energy to want to do so.
I checked the home-page for the list, and it does not mention that
there is this dual identity. It is relevant for a couple of reasons.
People at the Pitt Computer Center, which is my own ISP (Internet
Service Provider), have told me that the mail-lists are not an
efficient mechanism, and they would prefer that people use the
Netgroups. Netgroups certainly have the advantage that they will
keep going, without the contribution of a benefactor to contribute a
computer that acts as mail-server and organizor.
If you read a netgroup,
[GOOD] your mailbox won't get full, because messages don't go there;
[BAD] you have to make the effort to read what is saved, elsewhere.
Also,
[BAD] you have to read a message within the week (typically) that your
ISP saves it, or it will be gone from them. With a little more
difficulty, though,
[GOOD] the message is *never* gone, because you can fetch it from
DejaNews or ReMarq (assuming it was not posted with X-NoArchive: Yes).
Hope this helps.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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