Re: mailing list

* Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> [001205 05:18]:
> * Peter Maas <pm(at)mrinfo(dot)de> [001205 02:31] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this mailing list has lots of traffic (about 50 messages a day).
> > Wouldn't it be more convenient to turn it into a news group? I have
> > never seen a postgresQL news group on Usenet. It's really a hassle
> > to move all messages in pgsql-general to a separate folder or to
> > cut and paste when replying to a message within a digest. What do
> > you think?
>
> Er, there's a lot of utilities for managing mailing lists, procmail
> on UNIX and a boatload of clients for Windows have the ability to
> route mail based on email headers to seperate inboxes.
>
> Also, this has been brought up before and I'm pretty sure the
> concensus was that usenet attracts a lot of spam to its users.
>
AND, there is already a NewsGroup:

comp.databases.postgresql.general 0000010647 0000009863 y
comp.databases.postgresql.hackers 0000003422 0000003423 y
comp.databases.postgresql.admin 0000000741 0000000704 y
comp.databases.postgresql.novice 0000000856 0000000818 y
comp.databases.postgresql.committers 0000004057 0000003818 y
comp.databases.postgresql.questions 0000000130 0000000130 y
comp.databases.postgresql.docs 0000000211 0000000206 y
comp.databases.postgresql.ports 0000000381 0000000369 y

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