Jaap van der Molen wrote:
> No offense, but has anyone ever considered to put this whole mailinglist
> into a newsgroup? We must be generating tons of traffic.
>
Yep ... several times, as a perusal of the archives will show.
The key issues seem to be:
* Many users are behind firewalls that prohibit access to
Usenet newsgroups -- so a switch to a newsgroup would
disenfranchise them.
* Many users do not seem to be aware that they can set
up their mail reading environments to give you the same
"user experience" as when accessing a newsgroup. For
example, I use Netscape Communicator configured to
auto-copy all messages for TOMCAT-USER into a folder
for that purpose, and then maintain that folder's sort sequence
as "by thread" (which is the same way I normally read
actual newsgroups). The user experience of this folder
is identical to the way that Communicator presents
newsgroups, except for the addition of a "Delete" button.
* No one has volunteered to set up such a newsgroup on a
private server with two-way connections to the mailing list.
It should be possible to do this with most newsgroup server
software, if someone wanted to give it a try.
>
> Re Jaap
>
Craig McClanahan
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