Re: [cobalt-users] Moving Cobalt Lists

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 02:35 am, Thorsten Mitschele wrote:

> What about setting up a NNTP-System and several newsgroups to discuss
> and as an alternative to the lists?

It doesn't work for me for several reasons...

1) the only way I know to get a newsgroup archived is at 
groups.google.com, and they don't munge email addresses...

2) I don't run a newsgroup server.

3) I'm not sure too many people even know about newsgroups anymore; ISPs 
sure don't advertise newsgroups anymore, like they used to.

4) Many people have no idea how to read newsgroups on their system.

That said, the one advantage is that everyone sees decent threading.

Can you do it, Thorsten?

Jeff
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