The problem with the newsgroup is the spam, junk mail, sex adds,
etc. There's no way to stop those. With the list, it's been pretty
straight forward. What computers be without bugs??
:P
Sam '95 SLT Dakota
http://www.users.cts.com/king/s/samp/
----------
> From: Frank Ball <frankb@cougar.sr.hp.com>
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Re: alt.dodge.trucks.dakota
> Date: Monday, August 04, 1997 04:08 PM
> The mailing list has been trouble free enough that I'm not going to
> panic over one glitch. A newsgroup would be easier to sort through, but
> you will have to sort through far more noise. I don't even get
> alt.dodge.trucks, so creating alt.dodge.trucks.dakota would probably not
> help. Some people don't get any alt groups, and all alt groups I've
> seen get mostly spam. A better idea would be
> rec.autos.makers.chrysler.trucks. The Dakotas and the RAMS have enough
> in common that a common group would be good, and the traffic level would
> be about right for a newsgroup, and approval to create a new group would
> be much easier too.
>
>
> Frank Ball 1UR-M frankb@sr.hp.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:07:49 EDT