At 6:55 PM -0800 on 1/8/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
>>>Adrian: How about going to NNTP?
>
>Alain: I am not against the idea but, when I suggested
>something similar several months ago, the suggestion
>was flatly rejected.
Primarily due to problems solved by running a single server. Remember, back
then I was one of the people who helped _quickly_ put that idea to a
demise. It'd never work except with a private server.
>Alain: Another good point.
>
>> Mark: I seen no problem nor worries about
>> bounces, subscriptions, and admins getting
>> ticked off here.
>
>Alain: Adrian is indeed the only person that I am
>aware of that has had such problems with our list.
[Remember, Adrian was one of the recipients of the origonal message -- it
was cc'd here]
>
>> Mark: I think those are inflated assumptions
>> that are NOT real.
>
>Alain: Adrian is not a twit, Mark. If he says that he
>has had such problems, then it is surely true.
I think he was refering to me.
>> Mark: To create a new list is sorta easy on
>> the box such as the one we are now being hosted.
>> The system admin could do it in 20 minutes, max.
>
>Alain: The difficulty or relative ease of setting up
>mailing lists, while it has been a royal headache for
>me, on a Mac, is nonetheless not an issue in this
>case.
Know how easy it is to start a new newsgroup? A one-line control message in
a header.
>>>Adrian: I think this would be a _big_ improvement.
>>>And certainly worth the effort required
>>>to move any archives.
I said that. Adrian might not be too happy with that mis-attribution.
>
>Alain: Not right away, Adrian. Mark makes some good
^^^^^^
Anthony
