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Number   :  4327
Date     :  2003-04-16
Author   :  Dwayne Reid
Subject  :  Re: This discussion group.
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At 03:53 AM 4/16/03 -0500, Kan Yabumoto wrote:

>I wonder if it's time for us to consider making
>this group to be one of the usenet newsgroups.
>I'm quite ignorant about the mechanics of how a
>newsgroup is formed, and maintained.

Please do NOT do this!

If this becomes a newsgroup, I will not read it anymore. I just don't have 
time.

As it is now, the emails from this list come to me and get filtered into 
the proper mailbox and I read them when I have time (always 
off-line). News requires a 2 step process: identify the messages and mark 
them, then retrieve the messages and read them. Agent makes this easy but 
it is still more hassle than having the messages come to me.

Another point: spam is far worse on any of the newsgroups that I have 
monitored. Email harvesting from newsgroups is another concern.

dwayne

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