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Date:Mon Jul 28 13:27:01 1997 
Subject:Re: comp.lang.pop -> pop-forum gateway 
From:Dominic Fox 
Volume-ID:970728.01 

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
> -- 
> Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
> School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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