Setting that up sounds like a good idea to me. However, is this a real new
list, when was it setup? My news server does not carry it, so I will have to
start hassling them.
Darren Wiebe
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> Hello,
> I don't know if any of you had a look at comp.emulators.freemware,
> but it really doesn't look like what it ought to be; basically, 99%
> of the messages are about roms, playstation emulators, and warez CDs.
>
> Some people already gave up reading the group, and I understand
> their reaction. However, I would be quite disappointed if the group
> died due to spammers, especially because of the effort involved in
> its creation, so I think a mail2news gateway would help reducing
> the noise/signal ratio.
>
> I also understand you developpers prefer a mailing list as a way
> to coordinate efforts, and probably do not want to bother with
> maintaining such a system. Thus I am willing to set it up and
> maintain it.
>
> At the moment, I just intend to do the mail->news way, to avoid
> spam being forwarded to the mailing-list.
>
> Does anyone object ?
>
> Regards,
> Sam.
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