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From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: mailing lists
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:52:08 +0200
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> What do you think about yaroze-dedicated mailing lists ?
> 
> Personnally, I can't see why people would post to such a list rather
> than to the newsgroups. Moreover, I'm afraid that if discussions are not
> kept in one common place (and the newsgroups should be that primary
> place), some people might miss something, and some topics may be
> discussed twice without progress.

As said before the mailinglists are not realy active. And laid before
to, it's always the same members that use the newsgroups. I do think the
mailinglists are a good idea for those members that do want to be active
in discusions.
To many mailinglist are not a real good idea I think, but if there are a
few, or just one at the moment (I think), thats just good. I do think
that everybody must know about this list so that it's not like, the
members that want to join in but just don't know it excists or don't
know where.

> For instance, there's been a discussion about appliances for the full
> dev kit on a list. I was really interested in this topic, but could have
> missed it if I hadn't subscribed. Now, if someone posts about the same
> topic on the newsgroups : 1) he'll start from zero, missing what's been
> said in the list, and 2) anyone who ever discussed the topic in the
> mailing list will be too lazy to repeat what was said.

Maybe, but like you see... I also gave a reply on the mailing-list to
this and I repeat it now on the newsgroups to. So not al members think
like that. And if the newsgroup-readers want such a discussion, why not
have more discussions? I don't think that is a bad thing. There are a
lot of members that never go to the newsgroups or can't even get it to
work proper. For them is the mailinglist a great thing. And, a
mailinglist is much more active becouse you check your mail anyhow, not
everybody checks the newsgroups as much as their mail, so the
mailinglist is much quicker.

> There's also been a discussion about whether to build up those mailing
> lists or not ; as it seems that people who didn't subscribe may have an
> interesting opinion about that, I'm starting it here too. (In fact, I
> guess that anyone who reads the newsgroups subscribed !)

I think you have a real good point on that last, so what is the prob?

> As I have no previous experience of mailing lists, I might have
> misunderstood something, if this is true please tell me.

Mailinglist are kind of push media, while newsgroups are in your own
hands. This is a good thing and a bad thing, If you think it's good for
you, take a subscription. If you don't think so, just don't subscribe.

I do think it's nice to put your name under an article ( like you did on
the mailinglist)

DEnnis...

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