Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com> writes:
> If all you want to do is read list-managers using a newsreader, why
> not set up a private server on a spare linux box and use any of the
> various mail-to-news kludges to pump the mail into it?
Because it's a reasonable amount of work, and the Internet is, thank
heavens, one of the few places in the world where community still thrives
and people think in terms of saving each other work and helping each other
out rather than making anyone who wants what they have pay for it. (This
sounds harsh, and please know that I'm not being harsh *at you*, but
instead feel extremely bitter that there are so few areas like that left
in modern life.)
So when someone goes to that work, they feel like "hey, you know, with
only a bit more work I could toss this over the fence and let other people
use it without having to go to the same amount of work." This is a
laudible instinct that does them credit and should be encouraged, although
with the specific case of gating mailing lists it's also something that
people sometimes have to be talked into thinking twice about doing because
there are other issues involved.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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