In newsgroup managed by xharbour are present 1-3 spam messages each month http://groups.google.it/group/comp.lang.xharbour/topics so spam in not a problem in my opinion
Think that if you have stored all your messages in a newsgroup you want continue with it et viceversa so most website made assistance in either way newsgroup seem have a more diffusion and seem most modern of mailing list http://www.google.com/trends?q=newsgroup%2Cmailinglist&ctab=0&geo=all&da te=all&sort=0 Mailing list tipycally have this limitation : -limited in attachment because any mail sent to the list to the email account of everyone on the list. -require a registration process so seem most closed to public -Searching a mail in a mailing of period where you aren't subscriver is very difficult -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Barnett Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Harbour] Fwd: Uncaught bounce notification 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. -- Waiting for sunspots. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
