"Kevin Valentine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not a big fan of mailing lists for a number of reasons. >Searching their contents is never a trivial task. Threaded >topics are easily broken. They get mail bombed, spammed, >etc.
I on the other hand prefer mailing lists. I don't want to login to a news server every day to follow all the communication and to wade through a long lists of unrelated posts. Just the way a mailing list works accommodates my needs. Info-LabVIEW has never really been spammed in the past thanks to its outstanding maintainer Tom, a strict subscription policy, and all those fine folks being part of this list. I hope this continues in the future. >I would like to see Info-LabVIEW on a news (NNTP) server. >The beauty of comp.lang.labview is that I can read and post >from a news reader and search its archives with Google. No >need for a web interface. I know, news groups can also get >spammed and flame wars are more common, I just like them >better. If you want NNTP you can go to comp.lang.labview. Otherwise Info-LabVIEW is the place to be and I prefer the last one. Why setup yet another news service for LabVIEW which will either have to be seriously moderated or get drown in all sorts of spam and unrelated posts, including sex pill adds and heavy flame wars. Moderating a news service however seems almost like a full time job to me so chances are fat, that it soon is fades away or gets opened up to unmoderated operation and all its negative by-effects. >I was looking into how to set one of these up for LabVIEW >discussions. A group like alt.comp.lang.labview ... or >something like that. Again why this? Do you want to just mirror the discussion on Info-LabVIEW on that? Or compete with comp.lang.labview? The first might have some use but the second will be doomed for sure as a lot of professional people can't afford to monitor both comp.lang.labview AND Info-LabVIEW, not to mention yet another news service. Rolf Kalbermatter CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
