Re: [mythtv-users] Re: email list vs forum

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:13:10 -0800

Brad Templeton wrote: 
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:57:34PM -0500, Brad Benson wrote:
  
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:24:43 +0100, Robert Krig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
    
Someone here mentioned usenet newsgroups.
name some advantages of mailing list vs: newsgroup.  Is there even a
mythtv newsgroup at the moment?
      
Here's a big one:  I use Comcast for my internet service and they only
allow a very limited amount of news activity per month and even for
that I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a
username/password to access their news server.  Now I know that I
    

Nobody is suggesting the mailing list would go away, if you have trouble
getting your USENET feed.
Indeed. Actually, there isn't any technological reason why you can't have all three (email, news, and forum).

It seems easy enough to get a news group together using gmane, if it can be shown not to have significant amounts of spam.

However, I haven't seen a place that will mirror an email list in a forum - for free, that is. On the other hand, I do think the gossamer-thread archive is the best one I've seen (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/) - yes, perhaps I haven't seen it *enough* :|

Max.



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