Usdenet/Newgroup Feeds Vs Mailing List

[Selek]

| From: annein...@home.com
|
| I have been ill and only recently felt well enough to respond to the
| posts concerning moderation as well as to the ones concerning list
| subsrcibers vs newsgroup readers.
|
| While I am very pleased that the mailing list option works for most
| people with little or no missing posts, I would like to remind
| everyone that ASCEM was conceived first as a newsgroup, not a mailing
| list. Somehow, we seem to have put the tail before the horse.
|
| A newsgroup provides the most access, especially to newcomers.
|
| A newsgroup provides easier access to those who do not wish to have
| or cannot have an overflowing mailbox.
|
| Without easier access, a newsgroup becomes insular, moribund. Easier
| access would keep those who are new or those who are tired of missing
| posts *or* seeing their posts disappear into thin, cyberair from going
| elsewhere. Easier access keeps a group healthy.
|
| Without easier access, the newsgroup slowly but surely beomes what we
| have always said we *didn't* want it to become: a country club marked
| members only. Open and responsive only to those *in-the-know*.
|
| And no,I am not saying I have a solution. All I am saying is that I
| hope one can be found.
|
| anne in chicago

I agree, newsgroups are easier to follow threads, read, etc, but my
newsserver all of a sudden has decided to drop many posts, so the only way
I can get ascem in it's entirety is via the mail lists. Unfortunate, but
true.

Selek [still digesting Christmas dinner]

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