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On Thu, 2 Mar 1995 11:22:41 EST Stan Horwitz said:
>On Fri, 24 Feb 1995 18:35:18 GMT John Stewart said:
>>My personal opinion based on my experience supporting mailing lists
>>(using the Unix Listprocessor software) and as a Usenet News Administrator
>>is that many of the mailing lists which currently exist should be replaced
>>with newsgroups. Newsgroups are far less of a hassle to support and make
>>more efficient use of network bandwidth and machine resources.
I would modify your comment to say that they shouldn't be replaced, but
mirrored. Some folks can't get Usenet groups.....
>What people outside of Temple cannot see is that there are dozens of Listserv
>lists here which are devoted to instructional purposes within our
>University. These lists are used to by students and instructors in various
>courses to discuss their course lectures. The power of Listserv as an
>instructional tool is incredible. We also use Usenet for the same thing and
>I can see plenty of evidence that Usenet is not as good a venue for this
>stuff as Listserv. I am not sure why though. Because of Listserv's
>pedigogical value, I am able to justify keeping it, however, I am still
>negotiating with management regarding strategies for improving the way our
>Listserv and SMTP agent disperse outbound mail. One of the long-term options
>I plan to explore is moving to a non-VM version of Listserv, but that's not
>something I am prepared to do any time soon.
For what it's worth, that's precicely what we just did..... (well sorta).
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