Re: ANS and the future of the list

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

Wouldn't moving to a Usenet group open the list to submissions from
everybody and his dog?

If it does, my fear is that the (currently very good) signal to noise
ratio would drop precipitously and we'd end up with an unhelpful,
unmanageable deluge of "my <fill in the blank> smokez your stoopid
awdis" mails.

I'd rather pay for the list to remain in it's current form. Actually,
I'd be happy to pay for maintaining something akin to what we have now.

Just my $.002's worth.

- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com, issaquah, wa -
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:19:00 -0400
From: Mark.Granoff@Software.com (Mark Granoff)
Subject: Re: ANS and the future of the list

At 06:44 AM 9/12/97 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:
>'Payne's Law', formulated long ago on CIS' Canopus, applies - if it's
free
on 
>the Internet anywhere, it's free everywhere.  The signal to noise ratio
on 
>alt.autos.audi is only high because there's no signal to speak of - if
we
all 
>went over there, it would be usable.  It would also have the advantage
of 
>newsreaders with thread support - many's the time I've wanted to
uncheck the 
>box for a thread on coimbra. 

Intended or not, Phil makes a clear suggestion: Move the messaging
portion
of this list to alt.autos.audi.

As Phil pointed out, it would eliminate or improve some of the problems
of
being on a mailing list, including "reading it when you have time" and
threading.

If we all moved "en masse" the quality of that newsgroup would improve
1000
fold, everyone would have access at their whim without worrying about
their
mailbox overflowing, and Dan (who deserves high praise) would be off the
hook. :-)

Maybe this is a horrible idea -- blasphemy perhaps -- but I think its
worth
considering. Please, no flames. :-)

- -Mark