I agree with Chris - plus I am in the same boat i.e. no work-based newsgroup
access
Martin
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Martin Roundill
GIS Manager
Waitakere City Council
Private Bag 93109
Henderson
Waitakere City
New Zealand
-----Original Message-----
From: PERRY Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 20 March 2000 11:43
To: 'Bill Thoen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?
Importance: Low
I think the current system works fine...
...besides, I don't have access to Newsgroups - our administrator doesn't
allow it. So that rules me out.
Thanks,
Chris Perry
Systems Development CoOrdinator
Parks Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Ph: 61 3 9816 6800
Fax: 61 3 9816 9876
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, 18 March 2000 11:16
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 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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