In addition, newsgroups often get cluttered with spam and massively crossposted
flamewars.  I abandoned Usenet for this very reason and I have very little
desire to return to it...(and my feed doesn't get Usenet2..I wonder if
Usenet2 is still alive?).

I also don't want my email address being harvested by the Usenet spammers,
either..I get enough junk mail as it is!

Surely there must be a way to digestify this mailing list for those that want
it..you could send out digests a couple times per day.

Personally I find it more effective to have multiple mail folders (in a UNIX
world).  I used to use MH regularly and had all my squeak mailing list stuff
put into it's own folder.  Nowadays I use XFMail which has similar mail folder
facilities (a really good mail program, for anyone that's looking).   I'm
subscribed to a couple different high-volume mailing lists and routing them to
their own folders seems the best solution for me.

(Of course, this list is interesting enough that I have it forwarded to my
pager as well!)


On 17-Mar-99 Jarvis, Robert P. wrote:
> In my opinion the Squeak community is still well-served by this mailing
> list.  To recap the reasons I can recall regarding why we've stuck with the
> mailing list:
> 
>       1)  Newsgroups and newsfeeds are not reliable.
>       2)  Most mail clients have facilities for automatic movement of
> messages into folders/directories/whatever.
>       3)  Many people (many includes: self) can't access newsgroups which
> are not carried on the main news backbone because of firewall restrictions.
>       4)  Email is more immediate.  I see messages within minutes of their
> having been sent to the list, while my newsfeed (when it's working) can lag
> by hours and/or days.
> 
> FWIW I prefer sticking with the mailing list.  Your mileage may vary.
> 
> Bob Jarvis
> The Timken Company
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Markus Kohler [SMTP:markus_kohler at hp.com]
>> Sent:        Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:35 AM
>> To:  squeak
>> Subject:     Squeak newsgroup ?
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> Please forgive me, I know we already discussed that some time ago. 
>> But in the last few weeks the traffic on this list was
>> pretty high. 
>> A dedicated newsgroup might now make sense. 
>> 
>> 
>> Markus
>> -- 
>> Markus Kohler  mailto:markus_kohler at hp.com