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Subject[OT] Re: [ANN] new mailing list


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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