> If everyone can receive email and not everyone has access to
> newsgroups then how would it be available to a wider audience?
EMAIL_LIST + NEWSGROUP > EMAIL_LIST
assuming NEWSGROUP > 0 (and I'd like to see you argue it's -ve)
I would hope to see 'mirroring' (i.e. anything posted to list
goes on to the newsgroup etc), otherwise I think much of the
value of either one could be lost...
On a slightly different, but highly related, note:
I have been pondering some method of 'splitting up' the list so
that it is easy to filter out messages that you're not likely to
read (in my case, pretty much everything about VNC on windows).
The only (rather pathetic) thing I could come up with involved
some kind of 'identifier' on the subject line which gives an
indication of the platforms involved, both client and server.
It has to be very short (I want to see the rest of the subject),
and well-defined (so filtering works well). However, it also has
to be easy to use (which this suggestion is not, really!)
Here is my (not very good, but put forward in the hope it might
inspire some genius to come up with something better) suggestion:
The identifier takes the form "[s?c?]", where the question marks
should be replaced by a single letter which denotes the platform
(if applicable) for the server (after the "s") and for the client
(after the "c").
Suggestions for platform letters:
W - windows, M - Macintosh, U - Unix, A - Any (not specific)
It could well be worthwhile having linux as a separate letter (L),
even though it is basically 'a unix'.
Perhaps other *nixes might be worthwhile having their own
identifiers (I - Irix, S - Solaris, D - Digital Unix, etc).
Anyway, as an example, a good proportion of my e-mails would have
an identifier [sMcA] (server: Mac, client: Any).
If possible, it could be useful for the list-server to 'bounce'
any e-mail which does not have a valid identifier, also including
a couple of lines in the reply which outline the requirements.
- I can imagine this would reduce the number of replies along the
lines of "which platform is this on...?"
One problem I can foresee is that, from the evidence I've seen
from time to time on this list, there are a good number of people
who are somewhat confused over which is the client and which the
server. Well... ummm... dunno what to do 'bout that!
Well, it's short, and well-defined, even if it isn't terribly
user-friendly!
Anyone got any improvements/alternatives to suggest?
Adrian
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