From: Toni Verdu Subject: newsgroups To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 10:41:00 MET Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] > > I'm against newsgroups for several reasons: > 1. Who will do the work maintaining the groups? > 2. What about sites without news? > 3. The mailing system is working (never change a running system...). > 4. Tony wrote about sending some FAQs, etc. I think this is a pretty good > idea which will abandon the problems flooding the mailing list. > So I vote a g a i n s t substituting the mailing service by a > newsgroup. However, I wouldn't mind offering an a d d i t i o n a l > newsgroup. I agree absolutely with you. Why change things that are working fine? Not everybody has acces to news, but virtually anybody has acces to mail. So some people wants a newsgroup?... fine!, but don't cut off the mailing list, please! Toni -- *************************************************** Toni Verdu Carbo Seccio d'Electronica, Informatica i Automatica Departament d'Enginyeria Industrial Escola Politecnica Superior - Universitat de Girona Catalunya - Europe e-mail: toni AT songoku DOT udg DOT es toni AT pluto DOT udg DOT es ***************************************************