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). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Barnes (409) 846-3273 (home) [log in to unmask] (409) 845-9520 (work) "If the mind can conceive it, the body can achieve it." Napoleon Hill (in his book _Think & Grow Rich_)