Pynchon News?

[Teen Age Riot]

At 10:49 AM 2/15/96 +0000, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>But I quite like the subscriber system provided by list servers. It
>means people have to work that much harder to join in so they have to
>want to talk about Pynchon. Also it avoids most of the cross-posting
>hell that New groups (particularly alt groups) get subjected to. Also,
>you get pretty well every note - no gaps because a server down the
>line doesn't talk to you for a week and meantime expires all the
>pynchon stuff. Contrariwise, you feel more inclined to hold on to list
>server notes because you know once you delete them you may not be able
>to retrieve them whereas News notes might still be hanging around
>unexpired on the server. Most important of all, anybody with email
>can subscribe to a list server. Not everyone has News access,
>particularly to alt groups.
>
>Any other opinions?

I agree.  Lists just seem a bit more intimate.  Even with the fairly heavy
traffic on the P-list, I make an effort to read every post, because in
general it's worthwhile.  With newsgroups, there's just too much hooey to go
through everything.

If there was someway to mirror the P-list to a newsgroup so that it was
non-postable, however, that might be an idea.  That would let lurkers follow
along with having to sort through all the mail.

Al

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