Create Internet news group?

[Paul Williams]

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> 
> Paul Williams (paul at lily.aerc.colostate
edu) writes on 12 Nov 92 
> at 12:00:34 MST:
> >Would it be possible to set up grassp-list and grassu-list
> >as  Internet news groups.  I would really prefer this 
> >arrangement.  
> 
> Actually, I would prefer this too. The problem may be
> getting enough yes votes for their creation and finding
> some good software to do the gatewaying (since there
> will definitely be people who cannot read it this way).
> 
> A negative may be that the SNR will decrease (e.g., look
> at some of the knuckleheads on comp.infosystems.gis).
> 
> Personally, I've just gotten some better mail reading software
> (called "vm") that let's me get a better handle on the situation. If a 
> significant number of people really want to have a newsgroup,
> I can look into it.
> 
> --Darrell McCauley
> 
I was thinking of perhaps a simpler arrangement where people who wished to
post a message would still send to grassp-list via e-mail and the email
would still be sent to all subscribers but an additional article could
be posted to Internet news groups such as comp.gis.grassp 
and comp.gis.grassu or perhaps combine everything into one group
comp.gis.grass.  It might be best if the news group were moderated,
then articles could not be posted directly to that news group by the
general user comunity, only the moderator.

As it stands now, one must be aware of the grass mailing lists
before you can subscribe.  
Network news would have the addditional advantage of advertising
itself to the general user community. 

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