[Scottish] Making scotlug mailing list available via gmane ne ws gateway?

Wed Mar 5 16:10:02 2003

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> The thing with news (which has come as a shock to me, but then I'm
> prehistoric in web [sic] terms ;-)) is that generally only 
> oldtimers and
> geeks do news (in the traditional usenet sense). Newbies (admittedly,
> we're probably not talking about Linux users here!) have 
> enough trouble
> getting to grips with email, that news is just a completely 
> alien planet
> to them.. ;-(

On another mailing list, an adjunct to an alt. newsgroup (a clean one
though, well, ish) the same conclusion has come to us which is why we're
talking about building a web interface to a news server to allow people to
participate by both web and trad news reader.

News does seem to be the preserve these days of techheads, geeks, oldbies
and the occasional binary downloader

cds

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 &gt; The thing with news (which has come as a shock to m=
e, but then I'm
 &gt; prehistoric in web [sic] terms ;-)) is that general=
ly only 
 &gt; oldtimers and
 &gt; geeks do news (in the traditional usenet sense). Ne=
wbies (admittedly,
 &gt; we're probably not talking about Linux users here!)=
 have 
 &gt; enough trouble
 &gt; getting to grips with email, that news is just a co=
mpletely 
 &gt; alien planet
 &gt; to them.. ;-(

On another mailing list, an adjunct to an alt. newsgroup =
(a clean one though, well, ish) the same conclusion has come to us which is=
 why we're talking about building a web interface to a news server to allow=
 people to participate by both web and trad news reader.

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>News does seem to be the preserve these days of techheads=
, geeks, oldbies and the occasional binary downloader</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>cds</FONT>
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