[Nottingham] Too much traffic

.waffle nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Mar 6 22:44:01 2003


Well, to be honest, I reckon that a USENET group would be ideal, and as you
say, we need a mail -> news gateway or vice versa. I want to do this for
another project I am doing, can anyone fill me in on a piece of software
(Linux or Win32) that can do this please?

Thx in advance.

.waffle

But why not just raise the defensive shields?

"A superlative plan with only two minor drawbacks..."

Robert Davies <rob_davies@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| On Thursday 06 March 2003 21:51, you wrote:
||| Hence why a USENET group would be so much better... After all,
||| everyone
||
|| has access
||
||| to Google groups, do they not?
||
|| Actually I think a usenet feed would be an excellent idea. Would
|| easily let you see the threads on offer and let the USER decide what
|| to read and what to ignore.
||
|| Before I get flamed to death on this though, I'd like to point out
|| that the obvious suggestion I'm going to get "well you could set one
|| up" isn't really a real option.  I think the last thing we really
|| want is a split in the community. If the status quo is fine for most
|| people then
|
| The old way to handle it was a Mail -> News gateway, I used to read a
| few mailing lists like that :)
|
| Rob
|
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