From mperry@basin.com Sat Mar 28 15:03:14 1998 From: mperry@basin.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] NG Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:03:14 +0100 Message-ID: <6fj3fi$8ia$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] NG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1584909587758080108==" --===============1584909587758080108== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27 Mar, Steven T. Hatton wrote: >=20 > Luis A. Costabile wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, TEX wrote: >> >> > >> > What would it take to get a SuSE newsgroup up? I havn't got a >> > clue.. There seems to be enough traffic. Thanks >> > >> >> Why have a newsgroup? just more chance of spam. >> >> -- >> Lou A. Costabile Voice and Fax: [613] 781-7061 >> mailto:luis(a)lac.resonet.com >> To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject fiel= d. >> -- >> >> -- >> To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with >> this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e >=20 > I have had the same thought. A news group would be nice. What happened to= me > today is but one example of why a NG would be advantageous. My mail server= was > moved from one server to another. During the time that the new server was > running without the proper user database, I probably lost mail sent to me. >=20 > It would be nice to be able to search for answers that have already been po= sted > to questions. This could cut down on repetition. I also have a problem > managing the large amount of mail that I get. Being on mailing lists, > especially ones as busy as this, causes my mail management problem to incre= ase > greatly. >=20 > I know basically what it takes. I have set up news servers with Netscape's > Collaborate. I am not sure what resources this would take. My news groups= are > small. In a few months I may have resources capable of supporting a modest > sized NG. >=20 > As far as spammers go, kill 'em! Well, perhaps we could have a closed news > group instead. There are ways of accomplishing this. >=20 >=20 > -- > To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with > this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e The other option for a new newsgroup is to reflect the list to a newsgroup. I have participated in a few newsgroup creations in the past for OS/2 stuff and had decided at one point to reflect a mailing list to a newsgroup. This never happened though. Each approach had its advantages. I would vote for a reflected mailing list to newsgroup approach personally. --=20 Michael Perry mperry(a)basin.com ----------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============1584909587758080108==--