I no longer have news access, so this would cut me off like an axe.  I would
find this distressing.  

DejaNews is not an answer.  Deja.com is slow, awkward, and even with their
vaunted multi-feed system *still* misses messages.  I can't get through our
firewall to other Web-based newsfeeds because they insist on embedding chat
gateways in their homepage, which our firewall objects to.

Above and beyond my personal concerns, newsgroups are by nature unreliable.
Even when I had a decent newsfeed I know I missed articles because I'd find
messages replying to other messages I never saw.  In sound-bite form, news
sucks.

Stick with the mailing list, and use filters to redirect stuff
appropriately.

And you're right, Bijan, it *is* the damn groundhog's fault...  :-)

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Russ Van Rooy [SMTP:russvr at blarg.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:23 PM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Time to revisit newsgroup status
> 
> Hi Squeakers ! I got home today from software testing day job and what do
> I do ? Well of course I logon like any red blooded self-respecting
> computer geek ! But, I opened my mail program to be greeted with 105 new
> messages, 100 of them from the squeak mail list. I currently have over
> 2000 mail messages in my inbox , most of them squeak related, more than
> half of them unread . I think the time has come, folks, for us squeakers
> to have our own newsgroup up there with comp.lang.smalltalk. Why not
> comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak for starters ? Yeah, I know I could put a
> filter on my inbox and re-direct all of my squeak mail - I actually did
> that once and it was ok. But I bet I'm not the only one who would like to
> see  squeak represented by the news groups. Also, it would maybe lend more
> "empowerment" to the squeak community if we had our own newgroup.
> Whattay'all say ?
>  
> - Russ Van Rooy 
> Squeaking since 1.2 ?