I am afraid that I became 'fed up' with Newsgroups a long time ago,
so personally I'm not too keen on stopping the email pop-forum.
Others will no doubt disagree.
(I am rapidly getting fed up with email now, due to the number of
adverts and spams that I receive - about 30-40%)
Dominic Fox
Portsmouth
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 97 11:23:08 BST
> To: pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk
> From: A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
> Subject: comp.lang.pop -> pop-forum gateway
> Because of all the abuse of the internet by bulk email advertisers
> the gateway which transmits messages from the comp.lang.pop
> newsgroup to the pop-forum email list is now a real nuisance.
>
> I wonder whether it would therefore be a good idea to make it a
> one way gateway. I.e. messages to pop-forum would automatically
> go to comp.lang.pop, but not the other way. Then anyone posting
> a query direct to pop-forum who wanted to get a reply should
> add a note asking for the reply to be emailed direct to the sender,
> as you will not get copies of replies posted to the news group.
>
> People on the list would also need, occasionally, to look at the news
> group to see if they are missing anything.
>
> Comments? Alternative suggestions?
>
> Are there still any people who read the email version?
>
> Aaron
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