At 09:27 PM 4/27/98 +0100, Juntung Wu (JT) wrote:
>Sorry for being a bit "too naive" perhaps, but I still don't get the point
>of setting up an Usenet gateway.
>
>For a start, there is the huge security risk (SPAM mail, loops) and so
>forth. Secondly, Usenet has been increasing deserted (forced out by SPAM).
>Thirdly, if anyone is genuinely interested in reading the e-mails
>he/she/it could simply subscribe to the mailing list. There are far less
>people with only UUCP and not PPP & POP access these days...

If you want to read the flamewar between advocates of just a newsgroup, a
gated newsgroup, and just a mailing list, search dejanews for the
newsgroups bit.listserv.lawsch-l with subjects containing "RFD" or "CFV".

Bottom line- there are people who prefer Usenet, and there are people who
prefer mail. If you want maximum participation in your group, then offering
both is the way to go...

Philo


[log in to unmask]                    http://www.radix.net/~philo
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
It will take another week or 2 before this happens to all of the news
machines (he has to finish testing and order more parts).

-Erol's "it ain't broke if you can throw parts at it" Tech Support