Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/15
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Excellent summary by Dan....Newsgroups somehow always manage to sink to the
lowest possible common denominator.
At 09:50 AM 2/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I am in favor of keeping the LUG as a mailing list for the following reasons:
>
>1) the list is more reliable. I find that a certain percentage of
>postings to newsgroups never make it. This can happen with email as well
>but is much less prevalent.
>
>2) mailing lists are faster. It can take as long as a week for a post
>to a newsgroup to make its way to news servers around the world. I have
>verified this with the two ISPs that I currently subscribe to.
>
>3) news groups tend to become unruly, and there is going to be much non
>leica related junk making its way into the group. Moderating the group will
>make the group that much more inefficient.
>
>4) people who pay access charges can read their email offline. I don't
>think this is possible with the newsgroups (apart from reading the headers)
>
>One possible benefit of newsgroups is the ability of posting binaries (i.e.
>photographs) for perusal from other LUG members. The problem with this is
>that technically binaries are not supposed to be posted to rec.*.* groups.
>
>Just my opinions, FWIW.
>
>Dan C.
>
>
Mike Leitheiser
"When the trout are lost, smash the state."
Tom McGuane