>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <J> writes: JCL> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:27:50 -0500 JCL> Michael C Berch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't see the value of listing or archiving or whatever it is that >> gmane.org offers. JCL> The value of GMane is primarily not to list owners, but to list JCL> readers/members. GMans gives them: My take on this is that they're pulling the "protected" world of mailing lists back to the swamp called usenet. Back when you could scan and read *all* of usenet in 30 minutes in the morning, it was good. When it became the free-for-all pit of cluelessness, the clueful retreated to mailing lists, where there is a slightly higher threshhold for participating. Now, gmane wants to pull them back, apparently kicking and screaming. If people wanted newsgroups, they'd have them instead of mailing lists. Just because your mail reading software sucks, doesn't mean you need to pull the whole community into the usenet view of things. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/
