Hello Joseph, on Saturday, February 28, 2004, 9:10:11 AM, Joseph N. wrote:
> It would be easier to scan, store, read, and otherwise manage the > growing volume if it were on the Usenet. What do others think of > managing the volume of this list? Why it would be easier to scan, stor, read and so on? If you think a newsreader brings you more advantages than use a e-mail-account which you are using with the newsreader. As the newsreader mostly in all cases allows also e-mail-support you have the usability that you wish (if The Bat doesn't offer you these features). If others use a news2mail-gateway then anyway they use The Bat and it doesn't make any difference if we use a mailing group or a newsgroup. I personally like more newsgroups as the mails are downloaded and I can work offline on a laptop while travelling or stuff like that. Also newsgroups can be synchronised but I don't like it. And second reason to keep the mailing list is that we are talking about an E-Mail-Client and so by writing we can find out problems or things like that. Also not everyone has a newsgroup client installed (well actually maybe Outlook Express - but I think noone wants to force someone to use Outlook Express!). So I would be sad if this mailing-list would be less in usage because a newsgroup is available also for many beginners who are glad to be able to write and receive a mail. How you want to explain them that they should configure and use a newsclient when they just learnt to use a email client? And besides, when having problems with an e-mail-client I guess it would be wise to answer him on the same way. I like news but I think in this situation would be contraproductive. But that are only my thoughts. -- Best regards, Martin Using The Bat 2.04.4 on Windows XP ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
