On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:11:22AM -0600, Doran, Michael D ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Although serving a similar purpose, I make a distinction between > listservs and news groups. The main distinction being that I assume the > audience for the listserv is the people who explicitly subscribe to the > listserv, whereas the audience for Google Groups are basically the whole > world. This distinction affects my posting behavior.
I would suggest that the distinction you draw between the two is imaginary. I expect that anything that I send to anything that is not a single person may potentially get mirrored somewhere that Google (or any search engine) will find. > The fact that perl4lib postings also go to Google Groups should at least > be mentioned in the "WELCOME to perl4lib@perl.org" automated It sure couldn't hurt. Also, LISTSERV is a trademark. The generic term is "mailing list." http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/legal.asp -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
