On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jeff Wishnie wrote:
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:48:00 -0800 > From: Jeff Wishnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Tomcat Newsgroup? > > YES! That would make much more sense. > Newsgroups by themselves would disenfranchise a very large number of users behind corporate firewalls that don't allow NNTP access outside. Mail readers are very easy to configure to give you a user experience for mailing lists that is virtually identical to reading news - set up a filoter to copy messages for each list to it's own folder. As it happens, there's some experimental work on a two-way mail+newsreader solution for Jakarta mailing lists. That's probably ok (although we'll end up with a lot more off-topic posts from users that haven't read the list descriptions on the web site), but newsgroup-only would be a really bad idea. > - jeff Craig (who spends much time behind such firewalls, and would not be able to answer questions like this :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
