Create Internet news group?

[Greg Colello]

> Paul Williams (paul at lily.aerc.colostate.edu) writes on 13 Nov 92 

> 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. 


I've been using Internet news (usenet) recently through a newsreader  
on the Next computer called Newsgrazer. It really is easier to read  
and reply through than this arrangement. It would also help clean up  
my email back to just personal messages.

I like your suggested way of doing this too. A moderator who relays  
mail from the grasshopper make sense. Certainly the moderator could  
filter out the subscribe/unsubscribe messages and other such garbage.  
Retaining the grasshopper guarentees that people who can't get on  
usenet can still participate.

I vote for combining grassu and grassp when transferring to usenet  
(ie. comp.gis.grass). I suggested this for the grasshopper in a  
previous mailing and was shot down. (I still don't see any  
signifigant difference in the mail in grassp and grassu.) However,  
the grassp and grassu designators (ie. grassp-list at max.cecer.army.mil  
and grassu-list at max.cecer.army.mil) would have to be retained in the  
relayed mail for sending replies back to the grasshopper from usenet.  
Now that I've voted for combining... Come to think of it the way my  
NewsReader works having a comp.gis.grassu and a comp.gis.grassp  
really wouldn't be a big deal at all.

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello at biosphere.stanford.edu