In a message dated 6/26/2005 10:19:06 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Usenet" and "newsgroups" tend to be used interchangeably, but they're not strictly the same. The main line groups like comp.*, soc.* and so on are centrally administered by some organization whose name escapes me at the moment. >> Been a considerable amount of Morphing since bitnet in 1986. Darren can give give a better morphology. As I recall the jump from bitnet to usenet wasn't a smooth transition mainly due to hosting nodes not wanting to expend time and resources that weren't a 'profit center'. A newsgroup in just another subscriber to a list period end. There are configuration options that allow bidrectionaly posting/reading, but the uunet protocol masks posting until too late for Lsoft exits so as security precaution one way posting; i.e. must be subscribed to post, became the norm. Think newsguy.com is primary newsfeed for IBM-Main, everything else is just archival. What really bolloxed(?) up things is when Google started allowing subscription postings to it's archives of lists so postings to google(or any other service that allowed separate subscription) would not show up on the subscribed list so it presents a sync problem. Administratively it's a nightmare without end. Recommendations previously posted have given solutions for double mailings or post/nomail. Gives the subscriber more choices than they're accustomed to. IBM was a might slow to catch on to the Lsoft/Newsgroup phenomenon. For a while IBM-Main was fed into Software Mall under Hardware. It was run off a test server at Almaden. Don't know the whole story but one day somebody pulled the plug and the Software Mall feature became null and stayed that way for many months. After a few abortive attempts to get it restored gave up in disgust. Think it finally showed back up but by then google was off and running.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
