On 2003/03/20 12:41:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And I thought, why not move away from mailing lists to a newsserver > > > approach? > > > > Let's try it and see, as long as it doesn't dilute the discussions > > on the main mailing lists. Note, messages on the news server will not be > > sent to the list (obviously), so it's a one-way mechanism, and I'm actually > > pondering whether or not the news server itself should be read-only > > Well, that will most likely cut some of us work slaves from looking at the > newsgroups while at work (firewall/proxy).
Sounds like the mail lists are staying, though. The news group would just be for reading them in a differnt format. If we are talking about switching from mail to news, then, for me, a mail list has more benefits than a newsgroup. 1) I like the push-style of e-mail. If I have to go pull it I'd probably forget a lot and be way behind. (Probably not a problem for people that already use news and already check it frequently.) 2) AFAIK, a newsgroup would tie me to reading from a single computer because the list of what I've read would be on each computer I use (work, home, friend's house, parent's house, etc). (Unless there's a good Web based interface that stores that info on the server so I can use it from different computers.) With the mail list, I can read it from whereever I can read my mail. 3) If we extend this to multiple lists for various other products, they may be scattered over different news servers with different Web interfaces. Then I have several places I have to go to keep up instead of just one: my mail client. (That's not as big an issue if I could use my own news client instead of a Web server, but see (2) above.) Just my 2 cents on that. I'll certainly work with whatever is decided and do so happily without complaint. :-) _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
