On 2002�05�22, "Joseph N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[TB! newsgroup, obviously]
> Any interest in this? Isn't it time?
I'm already reading this and a bunch of other mailing lists as
newsgroups[1], so to me personally it won't make much of a difference.
If I had the choice between pulling from a news server and converting
email to news myself, I would, however, pick the news server. Although
my current setup isn't difficult to do as such, newsgroups are a
little bit easier to work with, and I find them just much _cleaner_ to
handle.
I belive a private news server would be the best choice in this matter
-- small, private news servers are just about immune to the "spam and
porn" problems[2] that would scare Paul Wilson and possibly others off.
Spammers only care[3] about newsgroups which are publicly propagated.
With a private server, the administrators can also provide several
alternative interfaces -- the same lists could be followed as news,
mail and even on the web. It's really only limited to how much work one
is willing to put into it.
[1] As a general rule, I find mailing lists to be nothing but a
nuisance, so I convert them to newsgroups using Hamster[4]. I
wouldn't bother to follow any mailing lists _at all_ without the
possibility of scoring, easy killfiling and whatnot. I (heart) my
Hamster.
[2] Yes, I know this for a fact, as I did run a small news server myself
for some time using, yep, you guessed it, Hamster.
[3] As far as spammers care about anything as such, of course.
[4] A free news- and mailserver for windows which can be found at
<URL:http://www.tglsoft.de/>
--
Tone Marie Berg
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