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Superhighway Growth |
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tower @
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Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139-3309, USA +1-617-876-3296 |
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Sat, 23 Apr 94 14:05:48 edt |
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jailbait @
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pmdatropos @
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 12:59:14 -0400
From: jailbait@intercon.com (Jailbait)
Precedence: bulk
I must say that I disagree with the plan to feed mailing lists into
newsgroups. For a great many of the mailing lists out there, I think
that if the list maintainters /wanted/ a newsgroup, they would have
started one already. Most of the lists I know /like/ having some
control over the readers of their lists that is not given by a
newsgroup.
Anyone else feel this way?
JB
I agree. And it's been common practice on all the gateways I know to
at least ask the maintainers of a mailing list if they have any
objections to having their list gated to and from a newsgroup, with an
offer to answer questions about USENET and possible effects of the
gateway, if they wish.
Mailing lists and newsgroups are very different types of forums.
thanx -len
Coordinator, gnUSENET and Gnu Project Mailing Lists
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