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From: David Shepherd <des@inmos.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: a hol newsgroup?
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 09:33:33 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <9308252007.AA29991@shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu> from "Mark R. Heckman" at Aug 25, 93 01:07:50 pm
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Mark R. Heckman has said:
> Given the increasing size of the hol community, and the corresponding
> large quantity of mail, would now perhaps be the time to create a
> hol internet newsgroup?  Much of the mail I receive is interesting
> and useful, but much isn't.  A newsgroup would give all of us the chance
> to browse at our own convenience rather than coming back from a trip
> (or even overnight) to face 30 hol messages interspersed with our
> other e-mail.  This thought just occurred to me when I logged in now
> and saw 13 hol messages and only one other message.  At that kind of ratio,
> and given the number of hol users here at Davis, we could save a lot of
> storage by having a newsgroup.

I don't think there's really a need for a newsgroup yet.

If you've got lots of users at a sight, or want to use a newsgroup to
allow you to browse articles, then the approach you should take is to
filter the mailing list into a local newsgroup.

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