Hello Leif, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:11:48 -0700 GMT (09/03/2004, 04:11 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote:
> For ages, Marck, Allie, and I have fought off the Usenet zealots (not > meant as a dig, that's tongue in cheek <VBG> who wanted to be able to > see the TB lists in Usenet without having to subscribe to the lists. And a good job you did. TB is an email client. If people want to discuss it (in English) on the Usenet, they can open a seperate newsgroup, just like in German cyberspace. > We fought that off for ages because we didn't consider it to be a > secure move. With Gmane, it has shown that we can do this (to make > more people happy who want this functionality) while keeping to our > tenants of protecting our family here on the lists. Seems like a lot of regular family members don't fel happy about this move. The length of the thread alone gives an indication that the time is not ripe. IMHO. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Der Selbstmord ist in Deutschland nich verboten. * Message reply created with The Bat! 2.04.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
