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I'd have to agree with Ed. The newsgroups allow a broader audience, and although there may be more 'irrelevant' content, there will be a proportional increase in very RELEVANT information that can be utilized without flooding people's mailboxes. We may also want to consider .binaries and .forsale sub-groups to help direct misguided posters. I don't buy the argument that UseNet news is less available than e-mail. Any and all corporations and internet service providers allow some sort of UseNet access... certainly within the comp.sys domain, which I believe is where the name of the newsgroup is headed. Move forward with the newsgroup and let me know how I can assist. Regards, -Ted At 01:13 PM 10/31/95 -0800, you wrote: > >I disagree with Paulo. Newsgroups are definitely the way to go. They are a >structured way of reading messages from a large group of people. A mailing >list only works when there are low volumes. There is absolutely no >difference between a newsgroup and a mailing list in terms of signal to noise >ratio. There is if the newsgroup is moderated, but I would be against >moderating any thinkpad newsgroup. As to the problems of certain people not >being able to read a newsgroup when they can get a mailing list, thats not a >problem at all. I used to have that problem about 5 years ago when I used to >have an account with no news access. It was easily corrected by having >someone who did have news access just send all the messages in certain >newsgroups via an automated script to a digest that I recieved once a day via >email. I don't see why the mailing list couldn't contiue to that very thing >for those who are deprived of news access. > >cheers >ed > >-------------------------------------- >Date: 10/31/95 12:49 PM >To: Edmond Bourne >From: Paulo Magalhaes >On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Derek V. Chan wrote: >> Just wanted to reiterate... >> >> All because there's a newsgroup doesn't mean that the mailing list has to >> die. This will just give more options. > >Just wanted to reiterate, too... >Newsgroup = more background noise >Newsgroup = less relevant information >Newsgroup = unavailable to certain people >And, for these very reasons, I DON'T want the newsgroup mirrored on this >list, thank you very much. >I rest my case. > >What's the obsession with newsgroups anyway?!?! > >-- >Paulo Magalhaes * Dept. Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA >voice: (+1 212) 305 1665 ** fax: ... 305 3986 ** pm119@columbia.edu > > > > >