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Re: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?

To: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
Subject: Re: Triumphs USENET Newsgroup?
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:41:36 -0700
Cc: Mark Gendron <markgendron@earthlink.net>, Triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <000501bf860f$fa7a1740$01000080@toadstool> <38C18F3C.6D4837F2@zianet.com>
Here's my 2 cents worth:  "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Joe

"Michael D. Porter" wrote:
> 
> Mark Gendron wrote:
> >
> > Has there been any discussion about establishing a USENET newsgroup to
> > replace this e-mail list? If not, then I would like to start such a
> > discussion.  :-)
> 
> This subject comes up perhaps once a year, not so much as a replacement
> for, but as an addition to the list. Someone announced they were
> starting one a year or so ago; I checked periodically for a week or two,
> and couldn't find it, so I suspect it did not materialize.
> 
> Most people strenuously object to the notion of a newsgroup, rather than
> a mailing list. The list is private, so virtually no spam gets through,
> and the spam bots have no chance of harvesting addresses from the list,
> so one's spam level doesn't go up by subscription to the list(s). And,
> newsgroups being generally available world-wide, yes, there's much more
> traffic, but, then, there's a lot more junk to wade through. And, if
> you're out of town for several days, frequently, your server may purge
> news, and those replies from a few days before may be gone.
> 
> Admittedly, the only thing I can see of advantage to a newsgroup is that
> one doesn't have to download email, just headers, and there's no storage
> problem on one's own drive, if one has the POP3 set up to download all
> mail. The disadvantages of a newsgroup seem to outweigh any advantages.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> --
> 
> Michael D. Porter
> Roswell, NM
> mailto: mporter@zianet.com
> 
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