a newsgroup?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Martin C. Mueller wrote:

> > On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Stuart wrote:
> > 
> > > Having only just subscribed to the mailing list, and wading through lots
> > > of posts, I was wondering if a newsgroup or two (eg ...vnc.d and
> > > ...vnc.announce) might not be a bad idea?  Sorry if this has already been
> > > discussed.
> > 
> > Well, newsgroups draw more spammers then I do care to see. I guess they
> > outclass sirup (I have not seen sirup draw as many flies as I have had
> > spams after using use(less)net for a while.)
> > 
> > So I would be glad to keep things as they are now.
> 
> I second this. However, I like the suggestion of a low-volumes 
> announcement list for people who just want to stay informed but don't 
> want to receive over 21 messages a day (average of this month, count 
> courtesy by findmail :-) ). I enjoy this kind of service with 
> several other products very much.

Pardon me. So I either lost over 65% of the messages or we have scored
only about a 100 per 15 days (March 1 to March 15) which are only 6 to 7
per day. Or that counter is way off.

I do suspect the latest. And I assume an announcement list would be nice
but it would not be on the top priority list.

I would like to know about patches but assume there must be better ways
then sending all these files to the mailinglist. A public place to put
them and where others can read them would be nice.

Hugo.

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