[11739] in APO-L
Re: newsgroups and APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Fri Mar 24 10:10:19 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:51:19 -0500
Reply-To: Randy Finder <NARAHT@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <NARAHT@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01HOHJGYI7R6HXIYIX@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Hayim S Weiss wrote:
> Here at Pitt, we have one by the obvious name
>
> Pitt.Alpha.Phi.Omega
>
Chapters that have local (school hierarchy newsgroups) (AFAIK)
Pitt
Carnegie-Mellon
MIT
Lehigh
(and I'm sure a lot more)
> Maybe we could start one on the national circuit.
>
One of the differences between a chapter level and a national newsgroup
is that chapter newsgroups only make sense when 90%+ of the chapter has
access to it. Much less than 90% of those reading on APO-L have access to
newsgroups.
> However, we must be wary of such a newsgroup as we do not know who may
> receive and supply to.
>
Agreed. One other part of that is that for the obnoxious who post to a
chapter newsgroup can be controlled relatively easily by appeal to the
administration and the computer center. This does not exist for
World-wide newsgroups.
> Hayim
>
Randy Finder
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