On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rick Troth wrote: > The problem is that they turn us all into spam fodder. > Sad what happens to good tools in the hands of unethical people, > but such is the state of NetNews.
Of course, this could be avoided by running a newsgroup on a private server which required authentication. But at that point, you've reinvented the mailing list. I certainly understand why Harry chooses to run LISTSERV, but frankly, I've become very impressed with Mailman; having articles saved by thread and a nice web interface has proven very helpful to me. I think that a Mailman-based mailing list is about the best of all possible worlds in that it becomes easy to treat it as something like a newsgroup *or* as a mailing list. That is, if you set it to "no mail" and check the archives frequently, you end up with something that looks kind of like a Usenet article tree. On the other hand, you can just use it as a mailing list and that works fine. User admin is easy too. Adam
