Charlie Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If all you want to do is read list-managers using a newsreader, why > not set up a private server on a spare linux box and use any of the > various mail-to-news kludges to pump the mail into it?
Because it's a reasonable amount of work, and the Internet is, thank heavens, one of the few places in the world where community still thrives and people think in terms of saving each other work and helping each other out rather than making anyone who wants what they have pay for it. (This sounds harsh, and please know that I'm not being harsh *at you*, but instead feel extremely bitter that there are so few areas like that left in modern life.) So when someone goes to that work, they feel like "hey, you know, with only a bit more work I could toss this over the fence and let other people use it without having to go to the same amount of work." This is a laudible instinct that does them credit and should be encouraged, although with the specific case of gating mailing lists it's also something that people sometimes have to be talked into thinking twice about doing because there are other issues involved. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
