> Gee, and he has to check e-mail on a regular basis. What a concept!
> ;) ;) ;) If someone can learn to check e-mail regularly, then that
> person can learn how to check a newsreader. Heck, it's not like the
> concepts aren't startlingly similar: You read messages from other
> people, and if you want to and are allowed, you reply to what you
> read.
So even if you only have one interest it doubles the number of
places you have to check regularly. I don't consider that a good
thing. Besides, email comes to me - I can leave a mailer running
and it shows up automatically. Even if I have addresses at many
locations I can forward everything to a single place. Who wants
to have to check local newsgroups all over the place for every
announcement that might affect them? The real problem here is that
the propagation model for email isn't quite right for messages that
are bulky and only read by a few of the recipients, and the model
for news doesn't work where the storage is local but the readers
are also interested in local groups on other servers. Mailing list
archives are the solution, especially if they are searchable and
readable via web browsers. In many cases I'd prefer not to even
be on a mailing list if it had a good archive but for some I would
like notification of new messages.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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