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Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions
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David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:47:27 +0100 (BST) |
> I'd like to again suggest that the lynx-dev list be gatewayed to a newsgroup.
> That would cut down a lot of the email traffic and would make it easier to
> follow a discussion thread.
>
Newsgroups with small numbers of subscribers are difficult to set up.
This is for good reasons - they waste resources. They also tend to
get poor propagation and are vulnerable to spam, and probably worse,
off topic material from people who post semi-randomly rather than try
to work out exactly which newsgroup to use (one group for micro-computer
hardware designers was overrun by PC assembly questions). Given that it
would have to be in a browser hierarchy (the misc group currently handles
Lynx, of course) you will find that most articles are from MSIE/Netscape
users who have it every group in the hierarchy.
In any case, if a gateway can thread the messages, so can the end user -
there are mail user agents around (although I don't use one) that will
thread email, provided In-Reply-To: is used in certain ways (which is
not a requirement of RFC 822). Even then, mixed newsgroups/lists tend
to have a large number of unthreadable articles.
If all you mean is thread by subject, your problem is your user agent, not
the delivery mechanism.
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Howard Kaikow, 1998/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Howard Kaikow, 1998/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions,
David Woolley <=
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, David Combs, 1998/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, David Combs, 1998/04/16
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Ty Sarna, 1998/04/17
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, John, 1998/04/17
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Jan Hlavacek, 1998/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Philip Webb, 1998/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Jan Hlavacek, 1998/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Ty Sarna, 1998/04/18
- Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions, Howard Kaikow, 1998/04/18
- Re: Newsgroup ? (Was: Re: lynx-dev May 4th subscription instructions), Jan Hlavacek, 1998/04/18