Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
Hi,
On Thu, 07 Jan, 1999 à 04:54:49PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Didier Verna wrote:
> >
> > Mosl Roland writes:
> >
> > Mosl> I find the current method with email very unpractical.
> >
> > I find it very practical.
>
> Not everyone out here agrees with that statement.
>
> > Mosl> Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as
> > Mosl> news.debian.org ?
> >
> > I hope not. The signal/noise ratio on mailing lists is always so much
> > better than on a newsgroup.
>
> Not if its a 'private' news feed as in news.debian.org, and not
> the Usenet.
[snip]
> The issue is not how many features your news reader/mail reader
> has. The problem is that email lists require you to download
> *every* message, whether you want to read them or not. With a
> news server, you only have to download the subject lines, and only
> the messages you want to read.
>
You can do that with a pop account too. It's a waste of time unless you only
download a very small amount of your mails : when you do decide to download
a mail you get its headers a second time !
>
> > Mosl> So why not change it to a privat (only on one server available)
> > Mosl> newsgroup?
> >
> > It might be possible to have a newsgroup mirroring the list, but even
> > that, I don't like at all.
>
> Well, I *do* like the idea; so take that.
>
> I realize that debian.org may not have the resources to setup a
> 'private' non-Usenet news server on debian.org, but look, we've
[snip]
> subject lines), a newsgroup is more efficient for those of us who
> don't have the T1, or better, connections that the rest of you
> apparently have (how long does it take you to download 500 emails,
> Hmmm?). If debian.org doesn't have the resources then say that,
It's not that long. I do collect about 200 Mails a day with a 33600 modem
in about 3 minutes.
> or give a more concrete reason, instead of just telling us 'I like
> it better'.
> All I'm asking is for the majority to show a little more
> understanding of the minority's position.
>
>
> --
> Ed C.
>
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