Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Craig Graham Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: mailing lists (I say no!) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 15:45:19 +0100 Organization: Intelligent Research Lines: 25 Message-ID: <35488E7F.D4266EF@hinge.mistral.co.uk> References: <35469E55.A55E0C15@hotmail.com> <354765C3.5F80@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.131.235.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) One point with a mailling list that I don't think folks are considering is that Sony will probably not be pleased if technical points about the Playstation are discussed outside of their secure server, on a mailling list that (perhaps) anyone could subscribe to. That would give information to unlicensed people (check your Yaroze licenses, I'm sure they will say you aren't allowed to do that). The whole reason for the Yaroze WWW & News servers requiring passwords is to prevent that from happening.... Asides from that, I don't think it's a good idea to branch of into mailling lists - they've got no real advantage over the news groups. I can see the point of a password protected IRC server (on Sony's server?) and / or the ICQ chatroom (although I've never used it), as they are live discussions. But all a mailling list achieves is the same as the news groups but without the thread handling stuff.... Craig.