1. SPAM reigns supreme on the news lists.
2. Unless we have standard Subject lines you still have to download all the
messages to find the ones you want.
3. I agree about archiving, but by the same token all one has to do is post
a question here and it gets answered! Frequently just as fast as searching
through 100's or 100's of archived messages!
4. We all have our opinions, I would probably check out such a group if it
existed but I can certainly do without it.
5. I don't mind waiting for the list to download and my experieince with
news groups is they are no faster so...
Just my thoughts and mine only!
Safety Fast !!!
Ross Overcash, 74B, NAMGBR 2-1172, Ayer MA
http://www.tiac.com/users/jroverca/index.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Kai Radicke
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 1998 9:28 AM
> To: Bob Newell; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: starting newsgroup
>
>
>
>
> > Is anyone else tired of having to sit throught the downloading of
> > 60-80 messages at a time in this mailing list? Don't get me wrong,
> > but i really like this mailing list, its just that considering the
> > volume of mail sent every day on it, maybe a news group would be a
> > more appropriate format for this discussion. With a news group you
> > have better organization, you don't have to download whole messages,
> > and your mailbox does not get filled to overflowing. I think that an
> > MG newsgroup would be beneficial to all the MG fans out there who may
> > not have heard of this mailing list but certainly could find an
> > "alt.autos.mg" newsgroup. What are everyone's thoughts on this?
> > Does anyone know how to form a newsgroup (I have some idea, but not
> > sure how exactly)?
> > Please write back with your response.
> >
> > Robert Newell
>
>
> Andy Ramm and I discussed this awhile back, and there was also a smaller
> discussion on the list about it. IMHO, I feel that an MG or LBC news
group,
> would be an excellent addition to this list.
>
> I am in full support of an MG or LBC news group...and I see it very
> beneficial to finding new members for this list, and then there may be
> people who just would like to browse through some MG content once week
> without downloading 300 messages every 7 days...
>
> However the problem I see with it is:
>
> 1) Getting the news group promoted and carried by the major UseNet
> peering servers.
> 2) Other smaller problems like spammers (although MUCH less then in
past
> months and years).
>
> Advantages:
>
> 1) As this list isn't currently archived in a "searchable" format,
UseNet
> pretty much would solve this, making it easy for people to find archived
> postings that pertain to a specific topic that was already covered, or
while
> they do research.
> 2) As mentioned, you don't have to download all messages...just the
ones
> you want.
> 3) It is VERY unlikely that UseNet will totally shut down, so there
will
> be very little if any outages with a newsgroup. Whereas, the list can go
> down for various reasons.
> 4) File Attachments...unlike the list, you don't HAVE to download a
> message with a file attachment. So those of you that hate file
attachments
> can say NO, and those of you that like them can choose to download the
> attachment.
>
> On the note of creating a newsgroup, its not a problem... I've done it
> before. Its also no problem of getting the newsgroup carried by atleast
20
> of the top50 UseNet peering servers on the Internet.
> http://www.freenix.fr/top1000/ )
>
> I see the major benefit of a newsgroup as the archiving on the Internet,
you
> will have multiple places that store the posts and multiple places where
you
> can search for them, such as DejaNews and Altavista.
>
> So lets here the other Aye's and Nay's...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kai Radicke -- kmr@pil.net -- 1966 MGB @ http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg
> Sonix.Networks -- "Building the Internet, byte by byte..."
>
> IRC: irc.mcs.net, #inet-access (my nick: KMR or rebelgeek)
>
>
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