Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:22:33 -0500
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At 11:08 02/26/2001 Monday, Tom Rawson wrote:
>On 26 Feb 2001, Pete Weiss wrote:
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>> There must be, because the NEW-LIST LISTSERV(R) based list is doing
>> so. There appears to be 278 BIT.LISTSERV. groups defined, and of those,
>> at least 1/4 of them of non-empty.
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>I think you are talking about lists mirrored as newsgroups on the Usenet
>backbone in some way. Is that right?
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>I want something different, almost opposite to that -- a private news
>(NNTP) server running on the same machine as LISTSERV that allows people
>ot read the list (actually it would be the archives they'd be reading) as
>a newsgroup. This would not involve Usenet or Bitnet at all.
Why not just use the WEB interface? Adding yet another major Internet
client for a very special purpose seems like an ongoing commitment to
personnel training and other issues that might seem excessive.
One of the techniques that I use to read some lists is to subscribe in
INDEX HTML mode and then pick n' choose the articles (clicking on the
emailed URLs to open a window to the full-text). If the posters have
used the original subject: in their REply, then there is a limited form
of threading, a handy NNTP-feature mimiced).
/Pete
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