A suggestion for factoring the list
jarvisb at timken.com
jarvisb at timken.com
Tue Feb 24 12:27:31 UTC 1998
Christopher Oliver (oliver at fritz.co.traverse.com) quoth:
>> As was already suggested on this list, I think Squeak discussion
>> should be moved to a moderated newsgroup. Newsreaders are
>> significantly better at managing a plethora of messages.
>
>Writing as technical administrator at an ISP, let me whole-
>heartedly reject this. The mailing list, fragmented or not,
>is reliable. News feeds are far less so. I.e. maybe your
>clever note got archived on AltaVista or DejaNews. Maybe it
>dropped in the bit bucket. At least with the mail, I know
>where things are. Further, with the spam problem, we lose
>the ability to discuss without mangling our mail identities.
>With the mailing list, I know the author and his interests,
>so I know in general how to direct my replies. In short,
>USENET is no place for serious discussion. (Maybe even
>light hearted discussion there is a bad idea.)
Let me weigh in with whole-hearted agreement for what Chris said.
Uselessnet is a great way to communicate if you absolutely, completely
don't care whether your messages get through or not. I get news from
two feeds and STILL miss messages. Mailing lists are pretty reliable.
As far as splitting the list goes, I don't think the traffic here is
excessive. Someone earlier said they'd collected 500 messages in the
past month. That's 16 or 17 per day, on average. Certainly not so many
that I have to spend hours wading through them.
In my opinion we should stick with what we have. If someone is dying to
create a comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak group, go ahead - but I personally
will continue to look here for Squeak stuff.
Your mileage may vary.
Bob Jarvis
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