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

["Kevin Stiles" <kstiles@pasco.wednet.edu>]

Don't count out the problem that there are individuals who either don't 
or CAN'T acces newsgroups do to restrictions, etc.

Email groups and Web are accessible to almost everyone.

Kevin

----Push is the force exerted upon the door marked "Pull".----

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen C. Daukas" <stephen@daukas.com>
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:33 am
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Mail list versus UUNET newgroup

> At 11:29 AM 5/18/2002, Doug wrote:
> >Stephen C. Daukas wrote:
> 
> [big snip]
> 
> >Well, as Jan Wilson said, the web email archives can be viewed by 
> thread, 
> >which gives you pretty much this ability.  Still, I realize that 
> some 
> >folks prefer the ability to post through the web also, which you 
> can't do 
> >with an email archive (actually, you can send an email reply to a 
> specific 
> >message, but it's not quite the same).
> 
> I wasn't thinking "web" - I was thinking good old nntp, which can 
> be set-up 
> to allow postings by a select group, but can be read by anyone who 
> wants to 
> subscribe...  (One can even use sendmail settings to limited 
> access on some 
> nntp servers and this could also be setup to do both nntp and smtp 
> at the 
> same time.)
> 
> Taking this approach would actually save bandwidth for those who 
> pay a 
> high-cost connection fee:  just subscribe to what you are 
> interested in and 
> avoid downloading the rest.  We did at a former employer of mine 
> years 
> ago...  Not sure how they do it now, but we had thousands of 
> subscribers 
> (members) and used email with archive, as well as web, as well as 
> nntp.
> Steve
> 
>