Newsgroup or Mailing list?

[Mr Craig Clark]

On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, John M. Krafft wrote:
  > My university just managed to add sfu.archive.pynchon to its list of 
  > accessible newsgroups.  The group was empty, so I posted a test message
  > which may or may not show up.  Wasn't the group originally intended to
  > be a kind of mirror site for list postings?  If the group could be subscribed 
  > to this list, then flushed every week or so, it might be convenient.  Of course,
  > to serve that purpose well, it would have to be "moderated" as a news group
  > so people could not, in fact, post directly to it

to which Oliver Xymoron replied:
  > There is currently no mechanism in place to gateway this list to a
  > newsgroup (as far as I know!). I don't think the newsgroup model is
  > well-suited to the kind of discussion that usually happens on Pynchon-l,
  > but if there's a lot of interest, I could examine it further..

Actually I think a newsgroup format would be better. My e-mail 
folders are rapidly getting clogged up with the fascinating 
discussions taking place here - on average there are some 20-30 
mailings to the list on my computer when I sit down at it each 
morning. And it's a real wrench to go through them all and decide 
which ones I want to keep and which I want to dispose.

Is there something I could be doing to avert this problem? Possibly - 
I'm not the most computer-literate of people, so if anyone's got any 
good suggestions, let me know. Nonetheless it seems that these 
problems might be averted if we went the newsgroup format.

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"