In Message Sun, 2 Jan 1994 01:15:01 -0700,
british-cars-request@autox.team.net writes:
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 22:47:45 -0800
>From: desouza@garnet.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza)
>Subject: Conversion from Mailing List to Newsgroup
>
>
>I would like to trow an idea to the whole list: To convert it into a Newsgroup.
>I am a newcomer here and I DO find it very hard to read and follow up on the
>subjects because the way it is listed and structured (or lack of it). Sometimes
>I am interested in the message-before-the-last and I have to keep scrooling
>through the wole thing (and being exposed to all) till I get there. With a news
>reader one can KILL an entire thread and discard it, and pick only the postings
>one is intereted at and would make life a lot easier ...
>
>A malinling list is ideal for something that has a low volume of one to five
>messages a week (one example) but NOT for such a high-volume list like this
>one. We could even organize things in a way that the ones that prefer to read
>it as a mailing-list could continue as such, with the newsgroup running in
>parallel and with the same contents.
>
>What do you think of it ???????
>
>Paulo Ney de Souza
>desouza@garnet.berkeley.edu
>
My opinion is that, for me and likely others, I cannot read a newsgroup
offline i.e. more $ as *I* pay for my connect time as an individual
subscriber. I find this digest just great as I can save it to a file, sift
throught it at my leisure and respond to the postings that interest me. I
have all the digests saved on floppies and make them available to other
members of a very loosely knit group called the British Automibile Touring
Association of Nova Scotia. We get together once a month for mostly day
trips during the summer months to tour the Province in our British cars. We
have everything from a 1920 R.R. Silver Ghost "Boat Tail" touring to a
Jensen CV8, TR3A, TR6 Austin Healeys, MGTA Tickford, MGTC and my
Sunbeam-Talbot.
Personally, I don't feel a change of format for the digest would be
advantageous.
Bob
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