Bill and the other:
I will keep the "petit committee", it always works better than going on a
full democracy "whose ever you are what ever you want to say wellcome"
approach.
Juanse Barros
Chile
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De: Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Viernes, 17 de Marzo de 2000 09:48 p.m.
Asunto: Re: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?
>Robert Karr wrote:
>>
>> What's a "Newsgroup", and why would that be better than what we have??
....Bob
>>
>
>A newsgroup is a wide open open mailing list, with the main
>difference being that all the mail resides on a server near you.
>Your software can do all the same things with mail posted here
>(read, send, search, thread, etc.) except that it doesn't fill
>*your* mail box with mail. You have to connect to an NNTP server
>(ask your ISP for the address of their news server) and you have
>access to literally zillions of email based discussion groups.
>The big GIS one is comp.infosystems.gis, but you can also look at
>AutoDesk, ESRI, Integraph and other special forums that are
>narrowly focused on just about any topic you can imagine. And I
>mean ANY topic!!
>
>However the first trick is try it out. Ask your ISP how to access
>their news server. If they don't have one, you are not getting
>the full firehose information stream you should be getting. Tell
>the ISP what software you use to get your mail, and they should
>be able to help you get set up. Then subscribe to news.answers or
>news.newusers.questions and news.groups, and watch those for a
>few days; you'll get the idea pretty quickly.
>
>There are pros and cons to newsgroups just as there are for
>mailing lists, but I think I will defer to those who thought
>MapInfo-L should go to a newsgroup to describe why they think
>newsgroups are better.
>
>- Bill Thoen
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