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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:26:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Dru Nelson <dnelson at redwoodsoft.com>
To: Doug Way <dway at mat.net>
Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Squeak newsgroup ?


> I agree that egroups.com seems to be the way to go in terms of getting
<snip>
> suppose there's no reason to move the list, especially if people can get
> digest access from egroups.  (I'm going to mention this on the Squeak
> Swiki.)

Well, I'm just recomending it as an alternative, backup source. I don't
want to suggest moving the list. 

> I'm on a different (non-digest) mailing list via egroups, and one minor
> downside is that there is a brief (one-line) ad at the tail end of every
> message, but otherwise it seems like a great service.  Also I would
> imagine the one-line ads would be less noticeable at the end of a huge
> email digest anyway.

Yes, we are ad based.

> I was hoping that egroups might also allow AND/OR logic keyword searches
> of the list, but it only seems to allow plain text searches... ah well.
> (Georg's archiver also only allows plain text searches.)

We're working on it :-)


Dru Nelson
Redwood City, CA