[cobalt-users] Re:How many people here would be interested in a cobalt newsgroup on usenet?

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:47 PM -0400 8/3/01, David Ball is rumored to have typed:

> I know I would find usenet much easier than a mailing list. The threads are
> much easier to follow and reply to, and I don't have 100+ emails a day in
> my inbox from this list alone.

   I couldn't disagree more; USENET doesn't work, doesn't propigate properly
(it just doesn't scale to the current user base), and is something I
personally avoid completely when it comes to discussions (other than NANAE,
and even then I only skim, not scan as I do here).

   If the number of posts/day are a problem for you, consider switching to
digest version, unsubscribe completely and then depend on the archives when
you have a problem (of course, that means you won't be helping _other_ people
with their problems, but we all make our own choices there).

   But USENET? Yuck. The only thing you'll accomplish there is increasing the
level of folks ignoring posts.

         Charlie