Xref: utzoo news.groups:4864 news.sysadmin:803 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!princeton!njin!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Comp.women vs. Comp.society.women Message-ID:Date: 8 Jul 88 06:35:23 GMT References: <11663@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <238@pigs.UUCP> Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 40 In article <238@pigs.UUCP>, haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: < In article <11663@agate.BERKELEY.EDU<, skyler@violet.berkeley.edu writes: < |... < | If people have comments about the group, or if people would like to submit < | something, or if people are not getting the group and would like it mailed < | to them, please contact me at: < | comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu < < This was originally posted in news.sysadmin, but it may bear saying < here. < < DON'T MAIL NEWSGROUPS. If you aren't getting the group, then you need < to get a newsfeed. We can't start having newsgroups mailed all over < the network. This overlooks two things: 1) A great many newsgroups are regularly mailed all over the net. a) All postings to moderators are mailed in. b) Many newsgroups are converted mailing lists. 2) A user can request and recieve a mailed news group whereas it takes a news administrator to set up the connections for a news feed. Similarly, any user can forward a group via mail (all that is necessary is that the group appears on their machine, it is not necessary for them to be moderator), whereas only a news administrator at another site can give a link. The usage of news groups to cut down on bulk mail only makes sense if all the groups get carried. Whenever someone stops carrying a group, they are simply setting up a situation where eventually someone will figure out how to get around it via mail. < Also, is anyone archiving the group? Actually, the last mention I saw of that was a note from skyler saying that she specifically wasn't. So far there has only been one message worth archiving (a reference on a book), but you never know -- something interesting might yet appear there. ------ BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)