re: Subject: newsgroup issue

[C1J1Miller <C1J1Miller@aol.com>]

Dan wrote:

<Ok, I get the message - many of you misunderstood me.

<What I envisoned was a private news server, where you

<would access articles (just like reading mail)

<after logging in with a username and password.

<The only way to get into the server would then be

<to sign up.  My goal was not to charge for this, in case

<you were wondering, but simply to eliminate spam and

<other junk.

This would be bad for me; I sub*cribe to the digest version.  I've got a slow
modem connection, and tend to do "automatic" downloads, getting everything
from my mailbox.  Earlier today I downloaded about 4 digests and maybe 15
other pieces of mail; (each digest is around two dozen message posts in a
single text document).  For me, having to look through and download that
volume of posts would take much much longer online than just downloading it
all and reviewing at my leisure.  So I much prefer the "distribution" format,
myself.  Could this be done both ways?  Send out posts by email to those who
prefer, and let others read posts in the newsgroup format (sort of like
reviewing the archives... 

The newsgroup sounds similar to the discussion group at audicar's site.  Or am
I visualizing it wrong?
Chris Miller
Windham NH, c1j1miller@aol.com
'91 200q