Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:40:15 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | [OT] Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Alan Curry wrote:
> Aaron Denney writes the following: > > > >On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:06:45 +0000, Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> PS: are there any reliable nntp gateways for linux-kernel and friends out > >> there - or did they get closed to reduce the spam level? > > > >Public gateways are prohibited, but nothing stops you from setting up a > >private one > > This is really dumb. Mailing lists suck, and this one in particular sucks a > lot because it's too damn big to be a mailing list. It really needs to be a > newsgroup. With a mailing list, every single article comes to my account even > though I'm only interested in 1/10 of them. With a newsgroup, I scan the > subject lines and select the ones I want, and the bulk of the rest of them > never come anywhere near me.
Procmail. And in case of newsgroup everything still comes to your server anyway. Moreover, *any* USENET group quickly attracts a f*cking slew of cluebies. Just look at c.o.l.misc, for example. And one more thing - you can't crosspost to the maillist (well, no *easy* crossposting using Joe Average Luserware) so we are mostly spared from alt.destroy.microsoft crew here.
> Mailing lists should be converted to newsgroups as soon as they have gotten > enough subscriptions to prove that there is general public interest in the > topic. "General public" as in "h34, d00dz, I'v3 s33n an aw3sum 1ink 0n /. ab0u7 n3w an7i-M$ inv3s7igaishun and y00 a11 shud 100k a7 i7!!!1!!!1! <followed by HTML version>", right? Thank you very much, if you need that stuff - get an AOL account. It *might* make sense to go to Usenet 2, but then most of folks here would have *big* problems with access.
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