Guest guest Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 This mailing list averaged over 37 e-mails per day last month, and that was a bit of a lull--in the three months prior to that it averaged about 60 per day. I don't know about the rest of you, but that's too much e-mail for me. How many of you would be interested in a Usenet newsgroup? Here's what I've been able to come up with in terms of arguments for and against: Advantages: -No e-mail! -The ability to group messages by thread and maintain the thread hierarchy, thus allowing you to ignore threads or parts of threads in which you have no interest. -Archiving at Google, which is much better than 's archives, and without the annoying ads. Disadvantages: -It may take a while to get everybody's ISP to carry it, but in the worst case, anyone should be able to read it at Google, which, again, is a much more pleasurable experience than reading the archives at . -Typically Usenet newsgroups are unmoderated, which means that anyone can post anything. This does occasionally result in spammers and morons coming out of the woodwork. It's also possible to create a moderated newsgroup, but that would require someone to do the moderating. I believe that a moderated newsgroup can be run in a semi-moderated fashion, where all posts are automatically accepted except those from specific individuals who have been blacklisted or put on probation, which can be reviewed or thrown out as appropriate. Moderation is fairly rare; my provider lists about 100 moderated newsgroups out of tens of thousands, and most of them are for groups likely to draw excessive controversy, trolling, and mockery. I'll do all the research and work to petition for its creation, unless anyone with prior experience would like to volunteer. I'm currently thinking of the following names: alt.support.diet.price alt.support.diet.nourishing-traditions alt.support.diet.traditional rec.food.traditional Let me know if you're interested and whether you can think of any other issues or have any better ideas for names. Note that newsgroups not in the alt.* hierarchy tend to take longer to get approved, but often propagate faster once they do. Berg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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