Andrew Collier wrote:
> > Why? This conversation has come up before, but what advantages do you see > to a newsgroup over this email list? > The only advantage I can think of but its a major one is you can select which topics your interested in to save you downloading messages you don't want. Not all Sam users are interested in all sam subjects surely. > > Not everyone who can read email is necessarily able to read news. > Newsgroups are more subject to spambots and address harvesters. > No ones saying newsgroups are perfect but there certainly more convenient and controllable. You can download newsgroups when you want and the messages that you think will interest you. > I usually try not to dismiss people's ideas out of hand, but to be honest I > can think of nothing I would like less, than to be talking about the Sam on > a newsgroup supposedly dedicated to some random person's nose. Hey he's not random he's a TV legend. What would the 'Streets of San Franscisco' have been like without him? And what about 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure'? > > And let's suppose some people still are subscribed to that group, aren't > they going to be rather miffed that a bunch of weirdos start barging in > talking about something *totally* irrelevant? There would be complaints to > ISPs. There would, at the very least, be a seriously major flamewar and the > sam-users wouldn't have a leg to stand on. > Well I did look in the newsgroup back along and there was nothing happening in it at all. However my suggestion wasn't meant to be taken too seriously in this regard although the idea of a proper dedicated Sam newsgroup I still like. > > And pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk doesn't appear to carry any groups on the subject > of Karl Malden's Nose, so I would be able to see any sam-users discussion > on it anyway. > You probably would need to ask your provider to add it to its supported newsgroups. If you wish to do this the precise Malden Newsgroups names are; Alt.fan.karl-malden.nose Alt.fan.karl-malden.kidneys Alt.fan.karl-malden.nose.fan.karl-malden.nose That last one is correct as strange as it is.
