Re: [cobalt-users] newsgroup server

[Jerry Pape <jpape@xxxxxxxx>]

All,

I think what Ed is saying is "why wade through a pile of messages he 
can't offer help with, when via threaded newsfeeds he could quickly 
determine the beginning and ending of an issue and perhaps the 
appropriate place for his contribution to its resolution". I have to 
agree with him. Lists are an inefficient means of handling this type 
of information. NNTP Service was built expressly for this purpose and 
the piles of mail traffic that accompany a mailing list, with issues 
that don't apply to every individual viewer, is Bad Bandwidth 
management. With newsfeeds the headers might often be pulled, but at 
least items of desired and undesired body content don't have to go 
down the pipe with them.

Let's face it, when I'm on the road and have little time, but want to 
know if somebody found something really important relating to my 
RaQs, the last thing I want to do is wade through a pile of unrelated 
crap as a series of mail messages or daily digests--why get 30-60 
messages a day--when I could download news headers in 15 seconds 
twice a day.

Let's get on the stick and move into the 21st century. Cobalt can and 
should easily be able to start a private or public newsfeed. I've got 
people who can do this in an afternoon.

JP

This is a call to action--post your opinion to the list.


> Edward M Gore Jr wrote:
> >  I would love to be able to access newsgroups instead of the bombardment of
> >  email, much of which I'm not knowledgeable enough to reply constructively
> >  to.
>
> Whereas news traffic will be low-volume and within your skill set????

Backhandedness is inappropriate


>  > While we're wishing, how about the following group heirarchy:
> <snip>
>  > cobalt.development.raq.1

> You can't have group names starting with numbers.

Sure you can --> cobalt.development.raq.one


> With any luck this discussion will just die before anybody actually does
> anything.  IMHO the single most constructive thing that could happen would
> be for one of "our" Colberts to go and slap whoever is meant to administer
> this list, and get them to put together a decent "welcome" message that
> will include posting guidelines, how to search the archives, etc.
>
> And also automagically bounce HTML-posters and digest-quoters.

God Forbid, content discrimination, why not just go whole hog for say
platform racism and the browser militia.

Are you too professional to endure the novice with a good suggestion?

-- Zen says "Be the beginner"

JP

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