At 15:33 05/05/96 -0400, you wrote: >>But Pete Weiss' asking *should* it, is this really the best way to do >>something like this, is to the point. The mere fact that a lot of >>people have finally gotten a little comfortable with list procedures >>(and lots of programs/services out there which will do it all for you >>for those who aren't comfortable with it) does not mean that a list, >>as I think most of us understand the term on this (ahem) list, is the >>best way to go for something like this..... > >Douglas and Pete make an important point. We've gotten to the point where >a >large percentage of the networked world has not only email but www access, >be it tty-based (lynx) or fully graphical. One-way dissemination in such >large volumes *may* be best served by a daily-updated web site, versus >daily email >to .14 million readers. Of course, it all depends on your criteria for >"best," >i.e., ease for the disseminators, versus traffic across email nodes, >dispersion >of load over the net, type of requests, etc. <snip> >Regards, > >Dave Phillips >(BIOSPH-L) > Let me also point out that not everyone who has email has WWW access, especially for business purposes. Does anyone know how many email-only clients there are in the corporate setting? Philo -- ====================================================================== Philip B Janus ||"Actually, I'm master of Samantha's [log in to unmask] || fate; she's only leasing it." 1E GULC <*> || -God http://www.radix.net/~philo || ======================================================================