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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patti Alutto)
Fri Mar 24 20:55:25 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:27:36 -0500
Reply-To: Patti Alutto <palutto@INDIANA.EDU>
From: Patti Alutto <palutto@INDIANA.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
I know several people have mentioned that they don't want a newsgroup, but
I've seen several newsgroups that are listservs/newsgroups work fine. I'm
not sure if that's the same thing someone else mentioned (it probably is),
but anything sent to the listserv is posted as a note, and anything posted
to the newsgroup is sent out to those on the list. This means that
someone like me, who has to pay for access, can read and post to the
newsgroup and restrict their reading to those things of interest. The
people without newsgroup access still see everything as well. As for the
privacy issue, there are always non-brothers on this list, or there have
been for the five years I've been reading, so a newsgroup wouldn't make
much of a difference. I know I'd find a newsgroup much more convenient
and I wouldn't have to remember to sign off and on again when I'll be away
from my account for long periods. I believe that there are ones set up
like this that are unmoderated. Unfortunately, I don't know the
technicalities of the setup. I use UNIX only because I have to. :)
Patti
