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Friday, August 11, 2000, 12:35:45 PM, Mark wrote:
> TIT(This is true). Perhaps the definitive answer to the original
> question would be reached if such a discussion group was created.
No.
> Then, those that preferred the newsgroup approach could use that and
> those that prefer the email apporach could use that. Eventually a
> winner would probably emerge... (I'm guessing here but!) so, if anyone
> wants to volunteer to create a discussion list, we'll soon see which
> method serves the greater-group the best...
Bad idea. Then you have two forums and if people want to keep up with
what is going on they will need to read both. Webboards aren't worth looking
at since they are so primitive it isn't even cute. Anyone who is marginally
competent with an email client, which I am assuming is anyone who makes
regular use of TB!, would be frustrated with such forums.
Newsgroups really don't offer any benefit over mailing lists on such a
small scale while providing a large vulnerability to spam /if/ it is carried
on the backbone systems. Of course you open a whole can of worms. Do the
users have news readers (we know they have an email client)? Do they have
access to a server with the newsgroup (propagation is not a guarenteed thing)?
Does their news server, if it has the group, have a complete feed of the
group? Do we gateway from the email list to the newsgroup? Do we run a
private news server to bypass spam and propagation issues? If so, how do we
support that news server and all readers and people that want to access it.
Given that we know they have an email client and know what that client can
do it is only logical the primary, and indeed, unless the user base baloons,
only support forum should be an email list.
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