At 5:38 PM -0400 4/19/02, Swan, Dean wrote:
>This topic comes up every once-in-a while.  It seems that the 
>consensus always comes up that the mailing list is the preferred 
>format and news groups attract too much spam.  This would be my 
>position as well.  The lists are archived, so those who don't wish 
>to, or are unable to deal with the mail volume can go to the 
>archives.

That's my recollection of previous discussions also: That none of the 
existing discussion forums would benefit from being split, that a 
mailing list was preferred over a newsgroup anyway, and therefore 
that a Squeak newsgroup would be a step *away* from the ideal.

-Martin

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Samir Saidani [mailto:saidani at info.unicaen.fr]
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:25 PM
>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Subject: RFD : comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak
>
>
>Hello,
>Here is a proposal for creating a newsgroups. If all it's ok, i'll
>send it to news.announce.newsgroups.
>If you want to make some modifications, feel free to do it at :
>http://semaphore.info.unicaen.fr:8080/samir/34
>