From: volker AT sfb256 DOT iam DOT uni-bonn DOT de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Subject: Re: newsgroups vs. mail
To: alan AT elroy DOT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov (Alan S. Mazer)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 09:11:32 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> > The mail list is quite satisfactory and is available
> > to all participants -- experts and newbies alike.  The first
> > rule of mental health is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
> 
> If it works, don't improve it?  For some of us, the mailing list isn't "quite
> satisfactory".

Indeed. 

> list mail from personal mail.  And remember, too, that this discussion was
> started by someone for whom the mailing list is _not_ available.

Let's not scare the newbies away from the idea of newsgroups.  Let's rather
explain to them that they stand to *gain*, not lose.  Many knowledgeable
people will notice the new djgpp group in their newsreader and start reading
it, to the profit of all, subscribers of the mailing list and newsgroups
alike.  There will not be anything taken away from the mailing list if it is
properly cross-gated.


-- Volker


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