[ On , March 20, 2002 at 17:16:11 (-0600), Mark A. Flacy wrote: ] > Subject: Re: english text only? > > Reads as if you are using poor tools for your news reader.
I have a plethora of most excellent news readers available for my use, and I am an expert user of most of them (though I generally only use one any more these days, when I need to use one). Remember I was a news server and feed operator (at several sites simultaneously) for quite a few years. I've done software development and maintenance of both news transport systems and news readers. I've even ported and maintained the old 'notes' software from which 'modern' news and Lotus Notes both grew from (and which itself was based on idas from pnotes and gnotes from the Plato system). RFC-1036 based systems are not the right tool to use _exclusively_ for a forum such as this one. Plain old e-mail is far less restrictive, far more widly accessible, and far easier to use for the vast majority of users who might be interested in this topic. Once upon a time when I ran news servers I would gateway mailing lists of common local interest into local newsgroups. However I soon learned that with the appropriate mail reading tools I didn't need to resort to translating messages back and forth between RFC-1026 and RFC-822 just to be able to manage discussion forums in RFC-822 format. (Of course if you work at a site where lots of people are quite interested in in the topic at hand, and all or most of your colleagues are already familiar with using newsreaders, and you already have the infrastructure in place to support newsgroups, then a local news gateway to either the GNUsenet system, or even a local news gateway to the mailing list, may be the most appropriate tool to use for this forum at your particular site and for those of your colleagues who like it that way, but only at your own site and others very much like it in these specific ways.) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs