Re: [seul-edu] Mail list versus UUNET newgroup

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

I guess it dates back to my old USENET and Fidonet history, but I much
prefer email for this type of discussion over web forum.  Heck, I tried
the web forum thing several years ago, and gave up on all of the ones I
joined.  Email is very near realtime nowdays, and works very well on low
speed, high latency links.  If I am dealing with a very busy day, it's not
uncommon for me to catch up on my email via my cell phone (Kyocera
QCP-6035, PalOS based), using TopGUN ssh, and a 14.4K dialup.

I would not mind a USENET gateway, but that leads to other issues (spam,
hipcrime, email address publication, etc).

If the seul-edu list was a web forum, I would not even be able to
contribute the small amount to it that I currently do.  I would have to
check to be sure, but I seem to remember being on this list since 1997,
maybe 1998.  Very soon after I started the project at Corbett Elementary
School.  There are several other lists I am on (The Hardware Group
(www.hardwaregroup.com), and the Tucson Free Unix Group (www.tfug.org))
that I have been on for about as long...  You don't really see that kind
of history with a web forum.

			Harry

On Sat, 18 May 2002, G wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2002 11:20:36 -0600 (MDT), Matt wrote:
>
> >Look into jive
> >
> >jivesoftware.com
>
> The feature of note from the website:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Newsgroup/email gateways: Jive integrates with NNTP newsgroups
> and email mailing lists. For example, when a newsgroup gateway
> is installed, messages posted in the newsgroup are imported into
> the forum, and messages posted in the forum are exported to the
> newsgroup. So, newsgroup and forum users interact together
> seamlessly.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Presumably, the email mailing lists would work the same way.
>
> And yes, this is the kind of thing I had in mind.
>
> ----------
>
> And 98% of women said they would rather date someone who liked cats, than someone who did not.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1965000/1965499.stm
>

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