On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:11:29PM -0600, Amos Gouaux wrote:
> >>>>> On 29 Nov 2001 21:10:26 +0100,
> >>>>> Simon J Mudd <Simon> (sjm) writes:
>
> sjm> I've been piping my mailing lists into a local copy of INN. I then
> sjm> use a news-reader to read the "news", and heavily filter based on
> sjm> subject. INN does the nice thing of expiring the messages after a
> sjm> while, and most/all news-readers all you to say: "I've read this
> sjm> newsgroup"
>
> I do something similar with our Cyrus server. Periodically I use
> Cyrus' ipurge utility to clear out really old posts. And to be even
> more perverse, I use a news reader (Gnus) to read mail. ;-)
>
No please, not a newsgroup or a forum.
They require a completely different way of working with information.
They attract spam and trollers like wasps to a picnic.
They lack the immediacy required for such a dynamic product as Postfix
(that last sentence sounds good, I think it means something!).

I agree the volume on this list is huge, but most people seem quite
good at keeping to the original subject in a thread and the delete-thread
option is a mere keystroke away in my mutt...

But I loathe using newsgroups, so maybe my opinions are too subjective.
I know however that I would read less of the messages and be more
censorious of what I read if I once a day ran fetchnews and am faced
with 100's of messages all in one go.

And then there is the problem of expiry, the delay in getting usenet
messages depending on the server you use.. etc. etc.

-- 
Regards
Cliff
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