Re: Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:25:53PM +0000, Woodchuck Bill wrote:
>
> Jan, Gary may be blunt at times, but try to understand things from his
> perspective. He is posting to Usenet. He expects his replies to appear on
> Usenet. You are accustomed to your way of writing and reading messages. He
> is accustomed to his way. Perhaps a bit overstated, his point is that if
> one or more comp.databases.postgresql.* Big Eight newsgroups are created,
> and they are gated to these mailing lists, it would open the doors for
> potentially many more participants from the Usenet side. Some of these
> participants will be just as confused and annoyed about why they are
> receiving so many e-mails after they post to Usenet. New posters will
> probably not even know that the groups were gated to the lists, so they
> expect unmoderated responses to Usenet, not messages from people they don't
> know, or messages from a moderator's auto-robot.
>
FWIW mutt (the MUA) has both a mailing list and a newsgroup, there is
no passing of messages from one to the other at all. There are quite
a few people (me included) who frequent both the newsgroup and the
mailing list. It all seems to work quite well.

In the case of mutt the mailing list tends to get the more specialised
mutt related discussion whereas the newsgroup gets more beginners and
general questions.

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Chris Green (chris(at)areti(dot)co(dot)uk)

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."