I was migrated from the Vopmail list to the Modus one and I was starting to get annoyed with the huge increase in list traffic, specially with the messages that are offtopic. Vopmail had very few daily messages. But I wanted to be patient knowing that it's a release time and some people were too excited.
This list needs a searchable archive. Does one exist?
Salama
From: "David Payer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Modus] Value of NNTP over mailing lists Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:40:29 -0600
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Message----- Original Message ----- From: Drew Salmon I prefer the immediate messages. Drew -----
It appears you do not use many newsgroups.
1) NNTP servers allow you to simply click on the server in Outlook Express
and it tells you if you have new messages or not. You can follow the threads
easily. They are available whenever you want to look at them.
2) Threading makes the organization of ideas easier and has a tendency to
keep people on the subject at hand
3) Messages are POSTED immediately
4) If you happen to lose your computer information, you can still go back to
the News server and get the info, unlike email (I got this one many times on
the VOPMail list: 'hey anyone got a summary of this mailing list')
5) you don't have to worry if your outbound mail server is working alright
to have your message reach the list.... oh yea, this is a Vircom forum,
scratch that one.
6) You don't get 200 messages a day in your mailbox that you feel you have
to scan to be aware of some crisis on the road.
The old OReilly WebBoard (www.webboard.com) would allow you to have both,
email lists, NNTP server and a web interface. You could choose your own
options in your profile. This product has been taken over by another company
(Akiva) with similar pricing as Vircom, maybe they can work out a swap. (I
have a license for that too but can't afford the $3K upgrade for it either -
I'm doing something wrong I think!). The folks at WindowsWare use an older
version here: http://webboard.winbatch.com/wbisadll/wbpx.isa/~winware/guests
or here via NNTP news://webboard.winbatch.com (you need to signup via the
web to create an account and then put your logon information into the
Outlook News account info).
$.02
David Payer
ps: a couple newsgroups I visit often
news://news.number13.com news://news.sssolutions.net news://news.codecharge.com
all have vibrant communities with people no less verbose than we do here.
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