Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 1994 17:00:09 -0500
From:	garym AT argos DOT rose DOT utoronto DOT ca (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: newsgroups vs. mail

I'm going to jump in with my 2 cents, just to keep the bandwidth levels ;-)

At my current site, none of the gnu groups are available, but I expect
I can lobby to have these added.  I do know the university frowns on
mailing lists as a large community like this can have hundreds of
recipients for a list; distribution by news is far more efficient
and less trouble to maintain.

On the native-net mailing list, Gary Trujillo was able to install both
and thus offer a mailing list to those without news while also making
the same messages available via alt.native where news supports this.

As one who not long ago had to pay for internet access, I sympathize
with those who want to limit their connect volume to the messages they
want to receive, and nothing beats an NNTP news service at this. I can
also appreciate that not everyone who returns from vacation to find
hundreds of queued mail messages will be overjoyed.

Now ... as to how this is done, I haven't the foggiest notion :-)

Gary Lawrence Murphy ----------------- garym AT virtual DOT rose DOT utoronto DOT ca
University of Toronto ---------- 4 Taddle Creek, Toronto, Ont M5S 1A4
Human Factors, Ind Engineering ------------ fax/voice: (416) 978-3776
----------------------- The true destination is always just here, now

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