Re: [cobalt-users] mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dom Latter wrote:

> But you will of course be running a newsserver on a Linux box, so you'll
> be able to specify exactly how each group is treated.

For this list, I keep my own archives on my own local (desktop) system. 
Makes searches much faster.  Yes, I suppose with a good newsreader I
could do that for a newsgroup, but not as easily.

> There are more drawbacks -

Yes, there certainly are...

> - fragmentation of resources

Interesting you should say that.  No one has posted to my "qube-users"
list in a week; I suppose most of us do want to stay in one place.

> - not everybody has news access

I hadn't thought of that.  Many of us have access to a news server. 
Many more of us have acces to Deja (but it's SLOOOOOOOOOW).  But email
IS much more universal.

> - propagation.  I don't know what the "dreadful 2-3 delay" is,

Nor do I; there are occasional delays in posts propogating here, but
never more than a half-day (at the worst) in my experience.

>   but all else being equal a mailing list is going to be faster
>   and more reliable than netnews
> - spam, supercedes, cancelbots, flame wars, trolls and interminable
>   cross-posted OS-advocacy yawn-fests.

Well, I was thinking about a private newsgroup, without propagation,
where whoever ran it could have a lot more control.

(I've got a news-server that ignores cancelbots, don't you <smile>?)

Jeff
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