Martin Wilson probably wrote at 4:37am yesterday morning: >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.
You can do all of that anyway if you have a decent IMAP mail client. Not that subject headers are necessarily a good indication of the content of the message, based on the speed some of these conversations can go. Besides, on sam-users that logic is usually close to the borderline of being a false economy. With so few messages, you may well spend more time on-line reading the subject headers and deciding what to download, than it would have taken to load every message and have done with it. >> 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'? That's as maybe, but I still wouldn't recognise him even if he jumped out at me in the street, sang "How much is that doggy in the window" in Swahili, and waved his nose at me on a forty foot pole. He still seems a fairly random person to have his nose discussed in public. Now if it were Gerard Depadieu, I might see your point... ... >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. The "provider" in this case is the University Computing Service, and I'm not about to go and ask them to distribute a bunch of absurd nose discussion groups on the basis of their sam-coupe content. I'm sorry, but I just don't think I want to live in that kind of surreal world.... Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he +----------------+-----------------------------+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
