To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: Stuart Herbert <S DOT Herbert AT sheffield DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: 22 Feb 94 17:09:48
Subject: RE: start a news group!

> Fine with me, but I would like to see the mailing reflector live on.
> I find it convenient to have this information segregated from our
> news feed since I need to forward this information to others in my group and
> I find managing a mailbox easier than the newsfeed.
> I also think that there are some subscribers who do not have
> access to the news.  Should there be a vote on this issue?

Certainly keep both, I hope.  All of the bit.listserv.* groups are also
mailfeeds.  Dunno about a vote - surely, at the end of the day, it depends
on what the clarkson admin are willing to suffer :-)

> I subscribe to the british cars mailing list, and this issue has
> come up several times.  They complain that the signal to noise ratio
> would go up considerably in a news group; therefore, it is a dead issue.
> I'm not sure that this would be a problem for a technical topic like
> this one, but this point should be considered.

I used to use the ToolBook mailing list, and imho the signal to noise
ratio was tolerable.  This seems to be the price you pay for attempting to
make something more accessable.  :(

What would a newsgroup (or groups) hope to achieve?  Personally, I like
the proposal of the gnu.gcc.djgpp.* hierarchy mentioned previously, but I
think that having all of this coming through my mailfeed would not be fun.

Stuart