Newsgroups and mail lists accomplish EXACTLY the same goals. Information
sharing. There is nothing about newsgroups that make this better. In fact,
newsgroups get distributed wastefully to places that will never use them,
taking up internet bandwidth with nothing to show for it. Kinda like spam.
And, there is no control over who can post to a newsgroup, so you inevitably
end up with all kinds of spam.
Have you noticed the spam level of our email list? Spam is nonexistent. And
that is because we have control over it. Control which we will not have if we
link up to a newsgroup. Can you show me a widely distributed newsgroup that
has this same low level of spam? Don't waste your time. The only ones that
have a low spam level are moderated. Don't even go there. Moderation is the
death of spontaneity.
Since they serve exactly the same function, there is no need to duplicate our
communication effort into a poorly controlled substitute for what we already
have working very well today.
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